Marce Fuller – chief executive of Southern Energy and scuba diving enthusiast – is helping expand our world.

MAKING A GOOD THING BETTER
Southern Energy's faster than expected growth and greater than expected success helps Southern Company achieve record earnings. We're working to continue that. Our competitive energy business outside the Southeast is growing fast. Southern Energy's 1999 earnings from operations were $328 million, compared with $239 million in 1998. We have a large, balanced competitive energy supply business. From that base, we've targeted markets with high, increasing energy use throughout North America and around the world. More than half the revenue in our competitive energy supply business comes from long-term contracts. No single project contributes more than 17 percent of our cash.