Company profile

Future of Southern

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Rank
214
| Quantumrun Global 1000

Southern Company is a US gas and electric utility holding company based in the southern America. It is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, with executive offices also located in Birmingham, Alabama. The company is currently the 2nd largest utility company in America, in terms of customer base. It serves 9 million gas and electric utility customers in different states through its subsidiaries.

Home Country:
Sector:
Industry:
Utilities - Gas and Electric
Website:
Founded:
1880
Global employee count:
32015
Domestic employee count:
Number of domestic locations:
19

Financial Health

Revenue:
$19896000000 USD
3y average revenue:
$18617333333 USD
Operating expenses:
$15267000000 USD
3y average expenses:
$14433000000 USD
Funds in reserve:
$1975000000 USD

Asset Performance

  1. Product/Service/Dept. name
    Traditional electric
    Product/Service revenue
    16803000000
  2. Product/Service/Dept. name
    Southern power
    Product/Service revenue
    1577000000
  3. Product/Service/Dept. name
    Southern company gas
    Product/Service revenue
    1652000000

Innovation assets and Pipeline

Global brand rank:
425
Total patents held:
2481
Number of patents field last year:
23

All company data collected from its 2016 annual report and other public sources. The accuracy of this data and the conclusions derived from them depend on this publicly accessible data. If a data point listed above is discovered to be inaccurate, Quantumrun will make the necessary corrections to this live page. 

DISRUPTION VULNERABILITY

Belonging to the energy sector means this company will be affected directly and indirectly by a number of disruptive opportunities and challenges over the coming decades. While described in detail within Quantumrun’s special reports, these disruptive trends can be summarized along the following broad points:

*First off, the most obvious disruptive trend is the shrinking cost and increasing energy generating capacity of renewable sources of electricity, such as wind, tidal, geothermal and (especially) solar. The economics of renewables are advancing at such a rate that further investments into more traditional sources of electricity, such as coal, gas, petroleum, and nuclear, are becoming less competitive in many parts of the world.
*Concurrent with the growth of renewables is the shrinking cost and increasing energy storing capacity of utility-scale batteries that can store electricity from renewables (like solar) during the day for release during the evening.
*The energy infrastructure in much of North America and Europe is decades old and is currently in the two-decade-long process of being rebuilt and reimagined. This will result in the installation of smart grids that are more stable and resilient, and will spur the development of a more efficient and decentralized energy grid in many parts of the world.
*The growing cultural awareness and acceptance of climate change is accelerating the public's demand for clean energy, and ultimately, their government's investment into cleantech infrastructure projects.
*As Africa, Asia, and South America continue to develop over the next two decades, their populations’ increasing demand first world living conditions will spur demand for modern energy infrastructure that will keep energy sector building contracts going strong into the foreseeable future.
*Significant breakthroughs in Thorium and fusion energy will be made by the mid-2030s, leading to their rapid commercialization and global adoption.

COMPANY’S FUTURE PROSPECTS

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