Southern Company CFO Tom Fanning To Speak at Merrill Lynch Global Power & Gas Leaders Conference Sept. 27

ATLANTA, Sept. 12 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Tom Fanning, Southern Company's chief financial officer, will speak Sept. 27 at the Merrill Lynch Global Power & Gas Leaders Conference in New York.

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Fanning will present on a panel entitled "Integrated and Regulated" on Wed., Sept. 27, at 10:30 a.m. EDT. The presentation will be available on a live audio webcast beginning at 10:30 a.m. EDT at http://investor.southerncompany.com/. It will be available for replay at this site for 14 days.

With 4.3 million customers and more than 41,000 megawatts of generating capacity, Atlanta-based Southern Company is the premier energy company serving the Southeast, one of America's fastest-growing regions. A leading U.S. producer of electricity, Southern Company owns electric utilities in four states and a growing competitive generation company, as well as fiber optics and wireless communications. Southern Company brands are known for excellent customer service, high reliability and retail electric prices that are significantly below the national average. Southern Company has received the highest ranking in customer satisfaction among U.S. electric service providers for seven consecutive years by the American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI). Visit our Web site at http://www.southerncompany.com/.