Affordable Energy
If energy becomes unaffordable, the economy doesn't enjoy its benefits. Southern Company's diverse mix of coal, nuclear, natural gas and renewable hydroelectric power has enabled us to maintain prices that are among the lowest in the nation.
We're considering adding new nuclear power to our portfolio to help meet our customers' electricity needs. It's efficient, reliable and emissions-free. And because coal is the nation's most abundant resource for electricity, with a 200-year supply right here in the United States, Southern Company believes coal is essential to a secure, affordable energy supply for our country.
We're demonstrated with advanced clean-coal technologies that coal can be used more cleanly to generate electricity, reducing CO2 emissions by 20 percent to 25 percent. We're working to further our country's technological strength to develop clean, affordable and reliable supplies of electricity.
At Southern Company, everything revolves around the customer. Experience tells us that when we provide our customers with excellent service, high reliability and affordable prices, everything else falls right into place.
Our solid financial performance is a direct result of our continued commitment to keep our customers satisfied by providing excellent customer service, high reliability and affordable prices.
Our customers expect reliable electricity at the lowest prices possible. Even with the price increases necessary to support the kind of capital that Southern Company invests to maintain service and reliability, Southern Company customers pay electricity prices that are well below the national average for electricity.
Our customers still pay electricity prices that are well below the national average. This is true even as Southern Company is in the first year of a three-year, $13.6 billion capital expansion, the largest in our company's history.