About Us
Together with our subsidiaries, we deliver clean, safe, reliable and affordable energy to our 9 million customers. Our focus is doing so with service excellence.
That means we are leaders who take action to meet our customers’ and communities’ needs while advancing our commitment to net zero emissions by 2050. We create community value through energy, social, economic, and environmental progress.
We do this through electric operating companies in three states and natural gas distribution companies in four. Our family of companies draw on diverse energy sources to create the best mix for our service areas, including electricity, natural gas, solar power, carbon-free nuclear, and other sustainable sources.
We leverage our leading distributed energy infrastructure company and other innovative technology to better serve every customer. Our competitive, national generation company serves wholesale customers, and our family includes a fiber optics network, and telecommunications services.
We have positioned diversity and inclusion as critical to our success enabling us to put the needs and well-being of the people we serve at the center of all that we do.
Southern Company believes all employees should feel welcome, valued, respected and heard. Our goal is a workplace in which all employees contribute to their fullest and a workforce that reflects our customers and communities. We accomplish this by valuing and leveraging the full range of differences and similarities we bring to our teams, customers and communities.
Workplace Awards
- 2023 100% Corporate Equality Index Score - Human Rights Campaign (7th consecutive year)
- 2023 America's Best-In-State Employers – Forbes
- Southern Company (No. 1 in Alabama, No. 5 in Georgia)
- 2023 Best Employers for Women (No. 9) - Forbes
- 2023 America’s Greatest Workplaces – Newsweek
- 2023 Best Companies for Multicultural Women – Seramount
- 2023 Top 50 Companies for Diversity - DiversityInc (8th consecutive year)
- No. 1 Top Company for Black executives
- No. 3 Top Company for Veterans
- No. 5 Top Company for Supplier Diversity
- No. 14 - Top Company for Executive Diversity Councils
- 2022 Global 200 – Forbes
- 2022 Best Employers for Women - Forbes
- 2023 America’s Best Employers for Diversity - Forbes
- 2023 America’s Greatest Workplaces for Diversity - Newsweek
- 2023 America’s Best Large Employers – Forbes
- No. 15 overall, top utility
- 2023 Top 100 Military-Friendly Employer (No. 2) - GI Jobs magazine