Southern Company is the largest producer of electricity in the United States and one of the largest in the world. Through subsidiaries and affiliates, we also develop, build, own, and operate power production and delivery facilities, conduct energy trading and marketing activities, and provide other energy services in the United States and international markets. Southern Company's common stock is one of the most widely held corporate stocks in America.                      Product/Service Electricity sales     Energy services     Security monitoring     Wholesale electricity sales     Wireless telecommunications           Subsidiaries, Affiliates, and Business Units Alabama Power     Georgia Power     Gulf Power     Mississippi Power     Savannah Electric     Southern Company Generation     Southern Nuclear     Southern Company Energy Solutions     Southern Wholesale Energy     Southern LINC           Customers Approximately 3.8 million consumers and businesses in the southeastern United States, ranging from large industrial customers like Chevron in Mississippi to heavy residential and commercial users like the Atlanta metro area     More than 50 other utilities and their customers     Residences and businesses around the Southeast     Other utilities, municipal utilities, and cooperatives     More than 100,000 users of wireless telecommunication services in the southeastern United States           Main Competition Other power producers and distributors     Utilities and other energy-services companies     ADT, Brinks, Protection One, and other security companies     Utilities and other power marketers like Enron, Duke Energy, Carolina Power & Light, and Florida Power & Light     Specialized mobile radio providers, personal communications system and cellular carriers, and paging companies                     Product/Service Electricity generation     Wholesale energy trading and marketing             Subsidiaries, Affiliates, and Business Units Southern Company Energy Marketing     Southern Energy New England (includes 1,267 megawatts)     Southern Energy New York (includes the planned acquisition of 1,776 megawatts)             Customers Other electric and gas utilities, municipal utilities, cooperatives, large industrial users, oil and gas producers, electricity generators, and other marketers             Main Competition Other power producers and energy marketers                               Product/Service Electricity generation     Wholesale energy trading and marketing             Subsidiaries, Affiliates, and Business Units Southern Company Energy Marketing     Includes our State Line generating plant in Indiana and plans to build a 300-megawatt plant in Wisconsin     Birchwood Power     Mobile Energy             Customers Other electric and gas utilities, municipal utilities, cooperatives, large industrial users, oil and gas producers, electricity generators, and other marketers             Main Competition Other power producers and energy marketers                               Product/Service Electricity generation     Wholesale energy trading and marketing               Subsidiaries, Affiliates, and Business Units Southern Company Energy Marketing     Southern Energy California (includes the planned acquisition of 3,065 megawatts in northern California)               Customers Other electric and gas utilities, municipal utilities, cooperatives, large industrial users, oil and gas producers, electricity generators, and other marketers               Main Competition Other power producers and energy marketers                               Product/Service Electricity generation     Wholesale energy trading and marketing               Subsidiaries, Affiliates, and Business Units Southern Company Energy Marketing     Includes our proposal to build a 300-megawatt plant and our proposal to acquire 80 megawatts in Texas               Customers Other electric and gas utilities, municipal utilities, cooperatives, large industrial users, oil and gas producers, electricity generators, and other marketers               Main Competition Other power producers and energy marketers                                 Product/Service Electricity generation               Subsidiaries, Affiliates, and Business Units Consolidated Electric Power Asia (CEPA)               Customers Guangdong Provincial Power Bureau     National Power Corporation     Industrial companies in the Philippines               Main Competition Other Independent power producers from Europe and the United States     Regional utilities                                 Product/Service Electricity generation, transmission, and distribution         Subsidiaries, Affiliates, and Business Units Bewag AG     South Western Electricity (SWEB)     Southern Energy-Europe         Customers About 2.1 million customers in metropolitan Berlin     About 1.3 million consumers and businesses in southwestern England         Main Competition None yet in Germany     Other electricity and energy companies in England                                 Product/Service Electricity generation, transmission, and distribution               Subsidiaries, Affiliates, and Business Units Companhia Energetica de Minas Gerais (CEMIG)               Customers Homes and businesses in southern Brazil               Main Competition None                                 Product/Service Electricity generation, transmission, and distribution               Subsidiaries, Affiliates, and Business Units Freeport Power     PowerGen               Customers About 15,000 homes and businesses in Grand Bahama     Trinidad and Tobago Electricity Commission               Main Competition None