Competition record
Southern Company
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Southern Company owns Georgia Power, Alabama Power, and Mississippi Power, and it operates the Vogtle nuclear units. Retail customers in those states are franchise customers, and new generators in the Southeast interconnect to utilities that sit outside the big regional markets.
Overview
Southern Company is based in Atlanta. Georgia Power, Alabama Power, and Mississippi Power are vertically integrated utilities, and Southern Company Gas adds regulated gas distribution in several states.
Vogtle units 3 and 4 are operating nuclear plants whose costs are recovered in Georgia Power rates under state oversight. That rate recovery is the customer impact of a plant that has no merchant competitor inside the franchise.
The Southeast does not have a single regional transmission market like PJM. Independent generators seeking to sell into or wheel across Southern's system deal with utility interconnection and with state regulators who still oversee integrated planning.
Competition footprint
Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi retail electric franchises are captive load.
Vogtle costs and output are embedded in Georgia Power's regulated rates.
Interconnection and transmission service are the access products for everyone else.
Consumer & business angle
Georgia Power customers pay for Vogtle through regulated rates and receive its output as part of the franchise.
A merchant generator in the region needs transmission service from utilities that also own generation.
What to watch
- Georgia rate cases that continue to recover Vogtle costs.
- Interconnection and transmission access for independent generation in the Southeast.
Markets
regulated electric utilities · natural gas utilities
Also known as: southern company, georgia power, alabama power
Conduct themes
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