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4 unusual facts about Southern Company


Skip Stewart

After a brief stint towing gliders in a Maule, he flew for a UPS feeder for six months before being hired by the Southern Company, where he flew King Air, Citation II, and Citation V aircraft as Captain.

Southern Company

Currently, Southern Company is building the first new nuclear units in the U.S. in 30 years at Plant Vogtle near Augusta, Georgia; building one of the largest photovoltaic plants in the U.S. at Cimarron, New Mexico; building one of the largest biomass plants at Nacogdoches, Texas; and installing over four million smart meters by 2012.

In 2009 Boardwalk Pipeline Partners, Southern Company and Kinder Morgan were involved in an explosion that killed one person and injured three people in Sylvarena, Mississippi.

In partnership with Turner Renewable Energy, the company is building one of the largest solar photovoltaic plants in the U.S. near Cimarron, New Mexico.


SouthernLINC Wireless

SouthernLINC Wireless is also a Motorola iDEN network with a broad dealer base and is a subsidiary of Southern Company.


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