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The Southern Company  (SO)
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What are The Southern's Business Segments?



Retail Operating Companies

The transmission facilities of each of the retail operating companies are connected to the respective company’s own generating plants and other sources of power and are interconnected with the transmission facilities of the other retail operating companies and SEGCO by means of heavy-duty high voltage lines.

Operating contracts covering arrangements in effect with principal neighboring utility systems provide for capacity exchanges, capacity purchases and sales, transfers of economy energy and other similar transactions. Additionally, the retail operating companies have entered into voluntary reliability agreements with the subsidiaries of Entergy Corporation, Florida Electric Power Coordinating Group and TVA and with Progress Energy Carolinas, Duke Energy Corporation, South Carolina Electric & Gas Company and Virginia Electric and Power Company, each of which provides for the establishment and periodic review of principles and procedures for planning and operation of generation and transmission facilities, maintenance schedules, load retention programs, emergency operations and other matters affecting the reliability of bulk power supply. The retail operating companies have joined with other utilities in the Southeast to form the SERC to augment further the reliability and adequacy of bulk power supply. Through the SERC, the retail operating companies are represented on the National Electric Reliability Council.

The IIC provides for coordinating operations of the power producing facilities of the retail operating companies and Southern Power and the capacities available to such companies from non-affiliated sources and for the pooling of surplus energy available for interchange. Coordinated operation of the entire interconnected system is conducted through a central power supply coordination office maintained by SCS. The available sources of energy are allocated to the retail operating companies and Southern Power to provide the most economical sources of power consistent with reliable operation.

SCS has contracted with Southern Company, each retail operating company, Southern Power, Southern Nuclear, SEGCO and other subsidiaries to furnish, at direct or allocated cost and upon request, the following services: general and design engineering, purchasing, accounting and statistical analysis, finance and treasury, tax, information resources, marketing, auditing, insurance and pension administration, human resources, systems and procedures and other services with respect to business and operations and power pool transactions. Southern Power, Southern Company Gas, SouthernLINC Wireless and Southern Telecom have also secured from the retail operating companies certain services which are furnished at cost.

Southern Power

Southern Power is an electric wholesale generation subsidiary with market-based rate authority from the FERC. Southern Power constructs, owns and manages generating facilities and sells the output under long-term, fixed-price capacity contracts both to unaffiliated wholesale purchasers as well as to the retail operating companies (under PPAs approved by the respective state PSCs). Southern Power’s business activities are not subject to traditional state regulation of utilities but are subject to regulation by the FERC. Southern Power has attempted to insulate itself from significant fuel supply, fuel transportation and electric transmission risks by making such risks the responsibility of the counterparties to the PPAs. However, Southern Power’s overall profit will depend on the parameters of the wholesale market and its efficient operation of its wholesale generating assets.

Other Business

Southern Holdings is an intermediate holding subsidiary for Southern Company’s investments in synthetic fuels and leveraged leases and various other energy-related businesses.

SouthernLINC Wireless serves Southern Company’s retail operating companies and marketing its services to non-affiliates within the Southeast. SouthernLINC Wireless bundles multiple communication options into one phone including InstantLINCSM Mobile to Mobile, cellular service, text messaging, wireless internet access and wireless data. Its system covers approximately 128,000 square miles in the Southeast.

These continuing efforts to invest in and develop new business opportunities offer potential returns exceeding those of rate-regulated operations. However, these activities also involve a higher degree of risk.

Territory Served by the Utilities

The territory in which the retail operating companies provide electric service comprises most of the states of Alabama and Georgia together with the northwestern portion of Florida and southeastern Mississippi. In this territory there are non-affiliated electric distribution systems which obtain some or all of their power requirements either directly or indirectly from the retail operating companies. The territory has an area of approximately 120,000 square miles and an estimated population of approximately 11 million.

Alabama Power is engaged, within the State of Alabama, in the generation and purchase of electricity and the distribution and sale of such electricity at retail in over 1,000 communities (including Anniston, Birmingham, Gadsden, Mobile, Montgomery and Tuscaloosa) and at wholesale to 15 municipally-owned electric distribution systems, 11 of which are served indirectly through sales to AMEA, and two rural distributing cooperative associations. Alabama Power also supplies steam service in downtown Birmingham. Alabama Power owns coal reserves near its Gorgas Steam Electric Generating Plant and uses the output of coal from the reserves in its generating plants. Alabama Power also sells, and cooperates with dealers in promoting the sale of, electric appliances.

Georgia Power is engaged in the generation and purchase of electricity and the transmission, distribution and sale of such electricity within the State of Georgia at retail in over 600 communities, as well as in rural areas, and at wholesale currently to OPC, MEAG, Dalton and Hampton.

Gulf Power is engaged, within the northwestern portion of Florida, in the generation and purchase of electricity and the distribution and sale of such electricity at retail in 71 communities (including Pensacola, Panama City and Fort Walton Beach), as well as in rural areas, and at wholesale to a non-affiliated utility and a municipality.

Mississippi Power is engaged in the generation and purchase of electricity and the distribution and sale of such energy within the 23 counties of southeastern Mississippi, at retail in 123 communities (including Biloxi, Gulfport, Hattiesburg, Laurel, Meridian and Pascagoula), as well as in rural areas, and at wholesale to one municipality, six rural electric distribution cooperative associations and one generating and transmitting cooperative.

Savannah Electric is engaged, within a five-county area in eastern Georgia, in the generation and purchase of electricity and the distribution and sale of such electricity at retail.


   

The Southern Tax Rate Companies within the Electric Utilities Industry


The Southern Company Segments

 
Retail
   92.09 % of total Revenue
Other
   0.67 % of total Revenue
 

Business Segments (Sep. 30, 2015)
Revenues
(in millions $)
III. Quarter
%
(of total Revenues)
(Sep. 30, 2015)
Income
(in millions $)
III. Quarter
%
(Profit Margin)
Retail
5,098.00 92.09 % 874.00 17.14 %
Other
37.00 0.67 % -18.00 -
Total
5,536.00 100 % 958.00 17.3 %

• The Southern Income Statement • The Southern supply chain • Revenue growth ranking by company and industry

Growth rates by Segment (Sep. 30, 2015)
Y/Y Revenue
%
III. Quarter
Q/Q Revenue
%
(Sep. 30, 2015)
Y/Y Income
%
III. Quarter
Q/Q Income
%
Retail
1.82 % 25.04 % 32.83 % 55.79 %
Other
8.82 % -13.95 % - -
Total
1.1 % 24.21 % 33.06 % 53.28 %

• The Southern Growth Comparisons The Southern Profile • The Southern Market Share

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