Southern Company is a diversified energy holding company that generates, transmits, and distributes electricity and natural gas across the Southeast and nationwide through multiple subsidiaries. Its core operations include three vertically integrated electric utilities serving millions of residential, commercial, and industrial customers in Alabama, Georgia, and Mississippi; Southern Power, which develops and operates power generation assets nationwide and sells electricity through wholesale market contracts; and Southern Company Gas, which distributes natural gas to millions of customers through four regulated utilities and operates a gas marketing business. The company earns revenues through cost-recovery mechanisms and rate adjustments for its regulated utilities, wholesale market sales and long-term power purchase agreements for its generation business, and natural gas distribution and commodity sales, while investing in transmission, distribution infrastructure, renewable energy, and battery storage to meet evolving customer demand and environmental standards.