Southern Company’s Tom Fanning Talks Carbon Emission Reduction, Plant Vogtle At Annual Meeting

Southern Company Chairman, President and C.E.O. Thomas Fanning, pictured in 2012, spoke about the business’s future recently at its annual stockholders’ meeting.

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Southern Company is the largest producer of electricity in the Southeast, and the parent company of Georgia Power.

At its annual stockholders’ meeting Tom Fanning, its president, CEO and chairman spoke about his confidence in the business’s future and answered nearly three hours of questions from shareholders.

Fanning also highlighted the company’s different subsidiaries’ responses to the hurricanes along the Gulf Coast this past year, saying that what was possible to restore, was restored in three days and rebuild the rest in 13 days.