The Southern Company (NYSE: SO)

Southern Company supplies power to customers in Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, and north Florida. Its facilities range from fossil fuel plants (mainly coal and natural gas), to clean energy and nuclear. Its four Vogtie reactors, the last of which recently came on-line, comprise the largest generator of clean energy in the US, and are expected to produce more than 30 million megawatt hours of electricity each year. Southern was recently named by Newsweek’s World’s Most Trusted Companies list as the highest ranked US energy company.