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	COMPANY DATA:	
		COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:			SOUTHERN CO
		CENTRAL INDEX KEY:			0000092122
		STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION:	ELECTRIC SERVICES [4911]
		IRS NUMBER:				580690070
		STATE OF INCORPORATION:			DE
		FISCAL YEAR END:			1231

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		FORM TYPE:		PX14A6G
		SEC ACT:		1934 Act
		SEC FILE NUMBER:	001-03526
		FILM NUMBER:		22871377

	BUSINESS ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		30 IVAN ALLEN JR. BLVD., N.W.
		CITY:			ATLANTA
		STATE:			GA
		ZIP:			30308
		BUSINESS PHONE:		4045065000

	MAIL ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		30 IVAN ALLEN JR. BLVD., N.W.
		CITY:			ATLANTA
		STATE:			GA
		ZIP:			30308

FILED BY:		

	COMPANY DATA:	
		COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:			Majority Action, LLC
		CENTRAL INDEX KEY:			0001738314
		IRS NUMBER:				825260248
		STATE OF INCORPORATION:			DE
		FISCAL YEAR END:			1231

	FILING VALUES:
		FORM TYPE:		PX14A6G

	BUSINESS ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		1885 MISSION ST.
		CITY:			SAN FRANCISCO
		STATE:			CA
		ZIP:			94103
		BUSINESS PHONE:		2022152895

	MAIL ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		1885 MISSION ST.
		CITY:			SAN FRANCISCO
		STATE:			CA
		ZIP:			94103
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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Arial, Helvetica, Sans-Serif; margin: 0pt 0; color: #0072BD"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif; font-size: 14pt"><B>The
Southern Company [NYSE:SO]: Due to the Company&rsquo;s Failure to Set Robust Interim Targets, Make the Near-Term Shifts in Capital
Allocation and Investment Necessary to Decarbonize in Alignment with a 1.5&deg;C Pathway, and Ensure Alignment of Policy Influence
Activities:</B></FONT></P>

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                                         AGAINST Chair, President, and CEO Thomas A. Fanning (Item 1d), and</FONT></TD></TR></TABLE>

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                                         AGAINST Lead Independent Director David J. Grain (Item 1e)</FONT></TD></TR></TABLE>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Arial, Helvetica, Sans-Serif; margin: 0pt 0"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Sans-Serif; font-size: 10pt; color: #0072BD"><B><I>The
physical and financial risks posed by climate change to long-term investors are systemic, portfolio-wide, unhedgeable and undiversifiable.
</I></B></FONT><I><FONT STYLE="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Sans-Serif; font-size: 10pt">Therefore, the actions of companies
that fail to align to limiting warming to 1.5&deg;C pose risks to the financial system as a whole, and to investors&rsquo; entire
portfolios, in addition to specific risks to those companies. See <B>Appendix A</B> for more information regarding Majority Action&rsquo;s
Proxy Voting for a 1.5&deg;C World initiative and the transformation required in key industries. </FONT></I></P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Arial, Helvetica, Sans-Serif; margin: 0pt 0"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Sans-Serif; font-size: 10pt; color: #0072BD"><B>The
Southern Company (Southern Company) emitted the third-most CO2<SUP>1</SUP> and generated the fourth-most electricity among U.S.
investor-owned utilities in 2019.<SUP>2</SUP></B></FONT> <FONT STYLE="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Sans-Serif; font-size: 10pt">The
company is among the 167 target companies named by Climate Action 100+ as the largest global emitters and &ldquo;key to driving
the global net zero transition.&rdquo;<SUP>3</SUP></FONT></P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Arial, Helvetica, Sans-Serif; margin: 0pt 0"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Sans-Serif; font-size: 10pt">Electric
power production is responsible for nearly one-third of energy-related carbon emissions in the U.S.<SUP>4</SUP> The largest publicly-traded
electric utilities remain among the largest sources of carbon emissions in the U.S. economy,<SUP>5</SUP> and their capital investments
in electric power infrastructure have the potential to lock in emissions for decades to come. In addition to curbing a direct
source of emissions, the decarbonization of electricity production also enables the decarbonization of other sectors such as transportation
and buildings as those sectors electrify.</FONT></P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Arial, Helvetica, Sans-Serif; margin: 0pt 0; color: #0072BD"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Sans-Serif; font-size: 10pt"><B>Failure
to set ambitious decarbonization targets in line with <FONT STYLE="background-color: white">1.5&deg;C</FONT> pathways, and to
align companies&rsquo; business plans and policy influence to those targets, is a failure of strategy and corporate governance,
for which long-term investors should hold directors accountable. At companies where the production, processing, sale, and/or consumption
of fossil fuels is central to their core business, and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions reductions have profound strategic implications,
the board chair, and lead independent director where the position exists, should be held accountable.</B></FONT></P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Arial, Helvetica, Sans-Serif; margin: 0pt 0"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Sans-Serif; font-size: 10pt">On
April 13, 2022 the Office of the Illinois State Treasurer announced that it intends to withhold its support from Board Chair Thomas
Fanning &ldquo;due to governance shortfalls and limited progress on key performance indicators as detailed
in the company&rsquo;s Climate Action 100+ Benchmark Assessment, which have been the subject of repeated requests from investors.&rdquo;<SUP>6
</SUP>The withhold vote from Chair Thomas Fanning is now listed as a flagged vote by Climate Action 100+.<SUP>7</SUP></FONT></P>

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setting</B></FONT><FONT STYLE="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Sans-Serif; font-size: 10pt">&nbsp;</FONT></P>

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    zero commitment by no later than 2050 for power production</B></FONT></TD>
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    zero commitment clearly includes all relevant emissions sources and has limited use of offsets, negative emissions, or unproven
    or uncommercialized technologies, including carbon capture and storage</B></FONT></TD>
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    interim targets of at least 80% by 2030 or at least 6% per year on a straight-line basis between 2019-2030 (on track to reach
    zero by 2035)</B></FONT></TD>
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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Arial, Helvetica, Sans-Serif; margin: 0pt 0"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Sans-Serif; font-size: 10pt">Southern
Company has set a net zero goal for its operations; however the company&rsquo;s interim target only seeks to reduce emissions
by 50% from 2007 levels by 2030.<SUP>8</SUP> Though Southern Company temporarily reached its 2030 GHG reduction target in 2020,
and projects it will consistently do so by 2025,<SUP>9</SUP> the company has yet to set a more ambitious interim target that would
be in alignment with net zero milestones. According to the International Energy Agency, emissions reductions of 76% or higher
must be achieved by 2030 in G7 countries from 2019 levels under its Net Zero by 2050 scenario, with average reductions on the
order of 6% per year between now and 2035.<SUP>10</SUP></FONT></P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Arial, Helvetica, Sans-Serif; margin: 0pt 0"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Sans-Serif; font-size: 10pt">Southern
Company&rsquo;s reduction targets apply only to its scope 1 emissions, excluding emissions associated with scope 2 and 3 emissions,
such as power purchased for resale and customers&rsquo; use of fossil gas from its gas distribution business.<SUP>11</SUP> In
addition, Southern Company&rsquo;s overreliance on carbon capture usage and sequestration (CCUS) to mitigate its emissions remains
out of alignment with the Science Based Targets Initiative&rsquo;s guidance that only small amounts of emissions (5-10%) after
net zero may be mitigated with carbon removal and not substituted for a company&rsquo;s own emission reduction.<SUP>12</SUP> According
to Southern Company&rsquo;s <I>Implementation and Action Toward Net Zero</I> report, the company contemplates utilizing 18% unabated
fossil gas and an additional 21% of fossil gas with CCUS for its 2050 nameplate capacity mix.<SUP>13</SUP></FONT></P>

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allocation and investment plans</B></FONT><FONT STYLE="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Sans-Serif; font-size: 10pt">&nbsp;</FONT></P>

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    plan to phase out coal by 2030</B></FONT></TD>
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    investment in new gas generation</B></FONT></TD>
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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Arial, Helvetica, Sans-Serif; margin: 0pt 0"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Sans-Serif; font-size: 10pt">Southern
Company has proposed to decrease its coal capacity (MW) by approximately 55% by 2028 from 2020 levels, and has indicated it will
retire its coal plants in Georgia by 2035.<SUP>14</SUP> However, Federal Effluent Limitation Guidelines (ELG) for complying with
coal ash and toxic metals in wastewater regulations no later than December 31, 2028 appear to be a strong factor in the company&rsquo;s
decision to retire 12 Georgia Power coal units, totaling roughly 3,500 MW, by 2028.<SUP>15</SUP> Georgia Power will continue to
operate Plant Bowen Units 3 and 4 (1,400 MW) until 2035, with newly installed environmental controls that are ELG-compliant.<SUP>16
</SUP>In December 2020 the Mississippi Public Service Commission advised Southern Company subsidiary Mississippi Power (MPC) to
schedule the retirement of approximately 950 MW of generating capacity by year-end 2027 or show cause why the continued operation
of some or all of MPC&rsquo;s existing fossil steam generation is in the best interest of customers and MPC.<SUP>17</SUP> In response,
MPC announced the retirement of 976 MW of fossil fuel capacity by 2027 in a subsequent integrated resource plan.<SUP>18</SUP>
Southern Company continues to operate the James H. Miller Jr. Electric Generating Plant (2,822 MW) in Alabama without a retirement
date.<SUP>19</SUP> Notably, the Miller plant has been identified as the largest CO2-emitting plant in the lower 48 states.<SUP>20</SUP></FONT></P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Arial, Helvetica, Sans-Serif; margin: 0pt 0"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Sans-Serif; font-size: 10pt">According
to the 2022 Georgia Power Integrated Resource Plan, the Southern Company subsidiary plans to add 2,356 MW of fossil gas capacity
from existing plants through six power purchase agreements (PPAs).<SUP>21</SUP> These PPAs will be with the wholesale power subsidiary
of Southern Company.<SUP>22</SUP> In addition, Alabama Power recently submitted a petition to buy a 743 MW gas-fired power plant
in Calhoun County, Alabama.<SUP>23</SUP></FONT></P>

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influence</B></FONT></P>

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    of policy influence activities with net zero target and limiting warming to 1.5&deg;C</B></FONT></TD>
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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Arial, Helvetica, Sans-Serif; margin: 0pt 0"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Sans-Serif; font-size: 10pt">InfluenceMap
scores Southern Company&rsquo;s overall climate policy engagement in the &ldquo;D-&rdquo; performance band and describes the company
as &ldquo;appearing to lobby on climate policy with largely negative positions.&rdquo;<SUP>24</SUP> Despite Southern Company&rsquo;s
top-line messaging of general support for the Paris Agreement, the company&rsquo;s state-level actions reveal opposition to policy
that would enable the low-carbon energy transition. In February 2021, Georgia Power expressed its support for a bill that would
ban local governments in Georgia from adopting building codes based on the source of energy they use, effectively blocking municipalities
with 100% clean energy mandates from moving away from fossil gas as a fuel source.<SUP>25</SUP></FONT></P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Arial, Helvetica, Sans-Serif; margin: 0pt 0"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Sans-Serif; font-size: 10pt">Through
the American Gas Association (AGA), Southern Company and others effectively lobbied against the Clean Electricity Performance
Program (CEPP) portion of the Biden Administration&rsquo;s Build Back Better act (BBB). The CEPP would have made a $150 billion
public investment in power companies that met annual targets for expanding clean energy and collected payments from power companies
that failed to comply.<SUP>26</SUP> Kimberly Greene, CEO of Southern Company Gas, is current chair of the AGA,<SUP>27</SUP> which
criticized the CEPP and increased its lobbying spending by 67% to $550,000 during the same quarter in which debates over the BBB
act intensified.<SUP>28</SUP></FONT></P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Arial, Helvetica, Sans-Serif; margin: 0pt 0; color: #0072BD"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif; font-size: 12pt"><B>Conclusion:
The Southern Company has failed to set robust interim net zero targets, make the near-term shifts in capital allocation and investment
necessary to decarbonize in alignment with a 1.5&deg;C pathway, and ensure alignment of policy influence activities. Therefore,
we recommend that shareholders vote AGAINST Chair, President, and CEO Thomas A. Fanning (Item
1d) and vote AGAINST Lead Independent Director David J. Grain (Item 1e) at the company&rsquo;s annual meeting on May 25, 2022.</B></FONT></P>

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A: Proxy Voting for a 1.5&deg;C World</FONT></P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Arial, Helvetica, Sans-Serif; margin: 0pt 0"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0,114,189)"><B>The
world is currently on track to reach disastrous levels of warming, driving massive harm and threatening the lives and
livelihoods of millions. </B></FONT><FONT STYLE="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Sans-Serif; font-size: 10pt">Corporate
leaders in the industries responsible for this crisis have failed to take up the leadership required to change
course.</FONT></P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Arial, Helvetica, Sans-Serif; margin: 0pt 0"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Sans-Serif; font-size: 10pt">&nbsp;</FONT></P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Arial, Helvetica, Sans-Serif; margin: 0pt 0; color: #0072BD"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0,114,189)"><B>&ldquo;Climate
risk&rdquo; is systemic, escalating and irreversible - and corporate boards urgently need to take responsibility for averting
and mitigating this risk.</B></FONT></P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Arial, Helvetica, Sans-Serif; margin: 0pt 0; color: #0072BD"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Sans-Serif; font-size: 10pt">&nbsp;</FONT></P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Arial, Helvetica, Sans-Serif; margin: 0pt 0"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Sans-Serif; font-size: 10pt">The
UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in 2018 made clear that in order to have at least a 50% chance of limiting
warming to 1.5&deg;C and avoiding the most catastrophic effects of the climate crisis, we must bring global, economy-wide carbon
emissions down to net zero by 2050 at the latest.<SUP>29</SUP> According to the International Energy Agency (IEA), in order to
achieve net zero emissions globally by 2050, the electricity sector must reach net zero emissions in OECD countries no later than
2035 and there can be no investment in new fossil fuel production from today.<SUP>30</SUP> The IPCC also recognizes that reducing
rates of deforestation and forest degradation also represents one of the most effective and robust options for climate change
mitigation.<SUP>31</SUP></FONT></P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Arial, Helvetica, Sans-Serif; margin: 0pt 0"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Sans-Serif; font-size: 10pt">That
means that corporate directors must ensure that companies set ambitious decarbonization targets in line with 1.5&deg;C pathways,
and align companies&rsquo; business plans, capital expenditures, and policy influence to those targets. Despite the escalating
climate crisis, systemically important U.S. companies continue to invest in the expansion and continued use of fossil fuels, further
accelerating global warming.<SUP>32</SUP></FONT></P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Arial, Helvetica, Sans-Serif; margin: 0pt 0"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0,114,189)"><B>The
physical and financial risks posed by climate change to long-term investors are systemic, portfolio-wide, unhedgeable and undiversifiable.
</B></FONT><FONT STYLE="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Sans-Serif; font-size: 10pt">Therefore, the actions of companies that directly
or indirectly impact climate outcomes pose risks to the financial system as a whole and to investors&rsquo; entire portfolios.
In order to manage this systemic portfolio risk, investors must move beyond disclosure and company-specific climate risk management
frameworks and focus on holding accountable the relatively small number of large companies whose actions are a significant driver
of climate change.</FONT></P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Arial, Helvetica, Sans-Serif; margin: 0pt 0"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Sans-Serif; font-size: 10pt">When
directors fail to transform corporate business practices in line with 1.5&deg;C pathways, responsible investors must use their
most powerful tool &ndash; their proxy voting power &ndash; to vote against directors.</FONT></P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Arial, Helvetica, Sans-Serif; margin: 0pt 0"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Sans-Serif; font-size: 10pt">&nbsp;</FONT></P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Arial, Helvetica, Sans-Serif; margin: 0pt 0; color: #0072BD"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0,114,189)"><B>Bold
and unprecedented action by investors is a prerequisite to averting further global economic and financial catastrophe. While past
shareholder efforts at standard setting, disclosure and engagement have laid important groundwork, company commitments won thus
far have been far too incremental, far too hard fought, and collectively insufficient to the scale of the crisis.</B></FONT></P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Arial, Helvetica, Sans-Serif; margin: 0pt 0"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0,114,189)"><B>Business-as-usual
proxy voting will not suffice to address the seriousness of the crisis at hand.</B></FONT> <FONT STYLE="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Sans-Serif; font-size: 10pt">We
urge investors to vote against directors at companies failing to implement plans consistent with limiting global warming to 1.5&ordm;C.</FONT></P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Arial, Helvetica, Sans-Serif; margin: 0pt 0; color: #0072BD"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif; font-size: 18pt">Key
Sectors Are Critical to Curbing the Climate Crisis</FONT></P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Arial, Helvetica, Sans-Serif; margin: 0pt 0"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Sans-Serif; font-size: 10pt">The
electric power, finance, transportation, and oil and gas sectors are key drivers of the production and consumption of fossil fuels
and must all make dramatic transformations to curb the worst of catastrophic climate change and protect long-term investors. Similarly,
companies driving deforestation &ndash; including companies that source key deforestation-linked agricultural commodities, driving
market demand for one of the greatest threats to the world&rsquo;s forests &ndash; must adopt comprehensive climate policies and
end deforestation.</FONT></P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Arial, Helvetica, Sans-Serif; margin: 0pt 0"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Sans-Serif; font-size: 10pt">Substantial
votes against board members at these companies could help realign business and investment plans to the goals of the Paris Agreement,
hold companies accountable for lobbying and policy influence practices that obstruct climate action, and align executive compensation
to key decarbonization goals.</FONT></P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Arial, Helvetica, Sans-Serif; margin: 0pt 0"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Sans-Serif; font-size: 10pt">While
each industry and company will need to chart its own path in pursuing decarbonization consistent with limiting warming to 1.5&ordm;C,
setting a target to reach net zero emissions by no later than 2050 is a critical first step. In the absence of such a target,
investors can have no confidence that the company will be able to transform its business consistent with limiting warming to 1.5&ordm;C.</FONT></P>

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<P STYLE="color: #0072BD; font: 10pt Arial, Helvetica, Sans-Serif; margin: 0pt 0"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif; font-size: 18pt">Voting
guide: Electric power generation</FONT></P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Arial, Helvetica, Sans-Serif; margin: 0pt 0"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Sans-Serif; font-size: 10pt">Electric
power production is responsible for nearly one-third of energy-related carbon emissions<SUP>33</SUP> in the United States. The
largest publicly-traded electric utilities remain among the largest sources of carbon emissions in the U.S. economy,<SUP>34</SUP>
and their capital investments in fossil fuel-based electric power infrastructure have the potential to lock in greenhouse gas
emissions for decades to come. In addition to curbing a direct source of emissions, the decarbonization of electricity production
also enables the decarbonization of other sectors such as transportation and buildings as those sectors electrify.</FONT></P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Arial, Helvetica, Sans-Serif; margin: 0pt 0"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Sans-Serif; font-size: 10pt">While
power generation globally has made some progress<SUP>35</SUP> towards decarbonization, falling emissions intensity of electricity
production has yet to be matched by reductions in absolute emissions. Given the substantial increase in electricity production
that will be required to decarbonize and electrify sectors such as transportation and buildings, reductions in the emissions intensity
of electricity will not deliver the emissions reductions needed to limit warming to 1.5&deg;C.</FONT></P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Arial, Helvetica, Sans-Serif; margin: 0pt 0; color: #0072BD"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif; font-size: 18pt">Target
setting</FONT></P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Arial, Helvetica, Sans-Serif; margin: 0pt 0"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Sans-Serif; font-size: 10pt">According
to the IPCC,<SUP>36</SUP> decarbonization of the power sector globally by no later than 2050 is a robust feature of all modeled
pathways aligned with limiting warming to 1.5&deg;C. In 2021, the IEA released its Net-Zero by 2050<SUP>37</SUP> Scenario, which
requires emissions from electricity production in OECD countries to reach zero by 2035. The Global Sector Strategy<SUP>38</SUP>
for investor coalition Climate Action 100+ reiterates that investors expect that emissions from electricity generation should
reach net zero by 2040 globally and by 2035 in advanced economies.</FONT></P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Arial, Helvetica, Sans-Serif; margin: 0pt 0"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Sans-Serif; font-size: 10pt">While
accelerated timelines for decarbonization of electric power are now well-accepted, the base level requirement for utilities and
their boards is to make commitments to reduce their emissions to net zero no later than 2050. In assessing the credibility and
robustness of net zero targets, investors should consider whether a target includes all relevant Scope 1, 2, and 3 emissions company-wide.
For utilities, this includes emissions not only from electricity directly generated by assets they own, but also emissions from
purchased and resold power, and for combined gas-electric utilities, emissions from customer use of fossil gas. Investors should
also take into account whether the utility has plans to eliminate the upstream methane emissions from gas used in power production
or by its customers.</FONT></P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Arial, Helvetica, Sans-Serif; margin: 0pt 0"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Sans-Serif; font-size: 10pt">In
addition to the base level requirement, in order to be aligned with the IEA&rsquo;s Net-Zero by 2050 Scenario, interim targets and milestones
are necessary. Such interim targets and milestones should prioritize accelerated emissions reduction between now and 2030 rather
than delaying the hard task of emissions reduction until after that date. This is underscored by the IEA&rsquo;s report on Achieving
Net-Zero Electricity Sectors in G7 Members, which requires emissions reductions of 76% or higher to be achieved by 2030 in G7
countries from 2019 levels under its Net-Zero by 2050 scenario,<SUP>39</SUP> with average reductions in the order of 6% per year
between now and 2035.<SUP>40</SUP></FONT></P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Arial, Helvetica, Sans-Serif; margin: 0pt 0"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Sans-Serif; font-size: 10pt">Finally,
robust net zero targets should not rely on substantial use of offsets, negative emissions, or technologies that are not yet developed
or commercialized to avoid having to make short-term greenhouse gas emissions reductions. Any use of such offsets or negative
emissions should be clearly disclosed to allow investors to assess the quality and credibility of utilities&rsquo; plans. The
Science Based Targets Initiative currently only allows for small amounts of emissions after net zero to be mitigated with carbon
removal;<SUP>41</SUP> any other investment into mitigation is encouraged but not a substitute for lowering a company&rsquo;s own emissions.</FONT></P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Arial, Helvetica, Sans-Serif; margin: 0pt 0; color: #0072BD"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Sans-Serif; font-size: 13pt"><B>Key
Data Sources:</B></FONT></P>

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                                         Action 100+, Disclosure Indicators 1-4<SUP>42</SUP></FONT></TD></TR></TABLE>

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                                         Targets Initiative,<SUP>43</SUP> Companies list<SUP>44</SUP> and Sector Guidance<SUP>45</SUP></FONT></TD></TR></TABLE>

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                                         (formerly Carbon Disclosure Project),<SUP>46</SUP> search company survey responses</FONT></TD></TR></TABLE>

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Allocation</FONT></P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Arial, Helvetica, Sans-Serif; margin: 0pt 0"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Sans-Serif; font-size: 10pt">Investors
must have confidence that utilities are making the near-term shifts in capital allocation and investment necessary to decarbonize
in alignment with a 1.5&deg;C future. According<SUP>47</SUP> to multiple<SUP>48</SUP> studies,<SUP>49</SUP> U.S. power producers
must phase out the use of coal generation by 2030 in order to stay on track to limit warming to 1.5&deg;C. The IEA&rsquo;s Net
Zero by 2050 Scenario<SUP>50</SUP> indicates all unabated coal generation must be phased out completely by 2030 in OECD countries.</FONT></P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Arial, Helvetica, Sans-Serif; margin: 0pt 0"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Sans-Serif; font-size: 10pt">Further
research indicates that the cost to operate 74% of existing coal generation capacity exceeds the cost to replace it with wind
and solar generation. By 2025, 86% of the coal generation capacity will be cheaper to replace<SUP>51</SUP> with renewables. For
regulated utilities,<SUP>52</SUP> these additional costs will be borne by shareholders if utilities are unable to convince regulators
to pass on those costs to consumers, creating substantial stranded asset risk for investors.</FONT></P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Arial, Helvetica, Sans-Serif; margin: 0pt 0"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Sans-Serif; font-size: 10pt">One
study by researchers at UC Berkeley found that the U.S. electricity grid could reach 90% clean energy nationally<SUP>53</SUP>
with no need for any additional fossil gas generation plants by 2035. According to Deloitte, existing gas generation capacity
&ldquo;accounts for most of the undepreciated value of US fossil fuel capacity,&rdquo;<SUP>54</SUP> making it the largest source
of potential stranded asset risk to utilities and their investors. Any future for gas generation beyond 2050<SUP>55</SUP> will
only be possible with carbon capture, utilization and storage, a technology that does not fully abate emissions, does not account
for upstream methane emissions, and is currently cost-prohibitive. In addition, increasing prices and volatility<SUP>56</SUP>
in the global gas market make investments in more gas generation a potentially risky long-term bet. In assessing the alignment
of capital allocation plans with limiting warming to 1.5&deg;C, investors should consider whether utilities are planning for no
investment in new gas generation.</FONT></P>

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Data Sources:</B></FONT></P>

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                                         Action 100+, Disclosure Indicator 6<SUP>57</SUP></FONT></TD></TR></TABLE>

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                                         Tracker,<SUP>58</SUP> Company Profiles: Utilities<SUP>59</SUP></FONT></TD></TR></TABLE>

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                                         Club, Dirty Truth report<SUP>60</SUP> and Data Dashboard<SUP>61</SUP></FONT></TD></TR></TABLE>

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Influence</FONT></P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Arial, Helvetica, Sans-Serif; margin: 0pt 0"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Sans-Serif; font-size: 10pt">Utilities
must fully align their policy influence activities, including political spending and lobbying activities, with the policy settings
required to accelerate sector-wide emissions reduction on a timeline necessary to limit warming to 1.5&deg;C. Utilities must provide
full disclosure of all political and lobbying spending to allow investors to assess this alignment. Finally, utilities must ensure
the alignment of the policy influence activities of any trade associations or similar entities of which they are members or to
which they contribute, or cease membership of such organizations. With efforts under way at the federal level in the U.S.<SUP>62
</SUP>to provide additional policy support to electric power decarbonization, utilities must not be engaged in efforts to delay
or hinder those policy advances.</FONT></P>

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Data Sources:</B></FONT></P>

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                                         Action 100+, Disclosure Indicator 7<SUP>63</SUP></FONT></TD></TR></TABLE>

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                                         Map,<SUP>64</SUP> List of companies and influencers<SUP>65</SUP></FONT></TD></TR></TABLE>

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                                         and Policy Institute<SUP>66</SUP></FONT></TD></TR></TABLE>

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Table</FONT></P>

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    <TD ROWSPAN="2" STYLE="width: 19%; border: white 2.25pt solid; font: 10pt Arial, Helvetica, Sans-Serif; padding: 12.15pt; background-color: #0072BD"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif; font-size: 9pt; color: White"><B>TARGET
    SETTING </B></FONT></TD>
    <TD STYLE="width: 9%; border-top: white 2.25pt solid; border-right: white 2.25pt solid; border-bottom: white 2.25pt solid; font: 10pt Arial, Helvetica, Sans-Serif; padding: 12.15pt; background-color: #F25025; text-align: center"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif; font-size: 10pt; color: White"><B>1.1</B></FONT></TD>
    <TD STYLE="width: 72%; border-top: white 2.25pt solid; border-right: white 2.25pt solid; border-bottom: white 2.25pt solid; font: 10pt Arial, Helvetica, Sans-Serif; padding: 12.15pt; background-color: #0072BD"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Sans-Serif; font-size: 9pt; color: White"><B>Net
    zero commitment by no later than 2050 for power production</B></FONT></TD></TR>
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    <TD STYLE="border-right: white 2.25pt solid; border-bottom: white 2.25pt solid; font: 10pt Arial, Helvetica, Sans-Serif; padding: 12.15pt; background-color: #F25025; text-align: center"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif; font-size: 10pt; color: White"><B>1.2</B></FONT></TD>
    <TD STYLE="border-right: white 2.25pt solid; border-bottom: white 2.25pt solid; font: 10pt Arial, Helvetica, Sans-Serif; padding: 12.15pt; background-color: #0072BD"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Sans-Serif; font-size: 9pt; color: White"><B>Net
    zero commitment clearly includes all relevant emissions sources and has limited use of offsets, negative emissions, or unproven
    or uncommercialized technologies, including carbon capture and storage</B></FONT></TD></TR>
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    <TD STYLE="width: 19%; border: white 2.25pt solid; font: 10pt Arial, Helvetica, Sans-Serif; padding: 12.15pt; background-color: #0072BD"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif; font-size: 9pt">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
    <TD STYLE="width: 9%; border-top: white 2.25pt solid; border-right: white 2.25pt solid; border-bottom: white 2.25pt solid; font: 10pt Arial, Helvetica, Sans-Serif; padding: 12.15pt; background-color: #F25025; text-align: center"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif; font-size: 10pt; color: white"><B>1.3</B></FONT></TD>
    <TD STYLE="width: 72%; border-top: white 2.25pt solid; border-right: white 2.25pt solid; border-bottom: white 2.25pt solid; font: 10pt Arial, Helvetica, Sans-Serif; padding: 12.15pt; background-color: #0072BD"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Sans-Serif; font-size: 9pt; color: White"><B>Robust
    interim targets of at least 80% by 2030 or at least 6% per year on a straight-line basis between 2019-2030 (on track to reach
    zero by 2035)</B></FONT></TD></TR>
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    <TD ROWSPAN="2" STYLE="border-right: white 2.25pt solid; border-bottom: white 2.25pt solid; border-left: white 2.25pt solid; font: 10pt Arial, Helvetica, Sans-Serif; padding: 12.15pt; background-color: #0072BD"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif; font-size: 9pt; color: white"><B>CAPITAL
    ALLOCATION</B></FONT></TD>
    <TD STYLE="border-right: white 2.25pt solid; border-bottom: white 2.25pt solid; font: 10pt Arial, Helvetica, Sans-Serif; padding: 12.15pt; background-color: #F25025; text-align: center"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif; font-size: 10pt; color: white"><B>2.1</B></FONT></TD>
    <TD STYLE="border-right: white 2.25pt solid; border-bottom: white 2.25pt solid; font: 10pt Arial, Helvetica, Sans-Serif; padding: 12.15pt; background-color: #0072BD"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Sans-Serif; font-size: 9pt; color: White"><B>Firm
    plan to phase out coal by 2030</B></FONT></TD></TR>
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    <TD STYLE="border-right: white 2.25pt solid; border-bottom: white 2.25pt solid; font: 10pt Arial, Helvetica, Sans-Serif; padding: 12.15pt; background-color: #F25025; text-align: center"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif; font-size: 10pt; color: white"><B>2.2</B></FONT></TD>
    <TD STYLE="border-right: white 2.25pt solid; border-bottom: white 2.25pt solid; font: 10pt Arial, Helvetica, Sans-Serif; padding: 12.15pt; background-color: #0072BD"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Sans-Serif; font-size: 9pt; color: White"><B>Limited
    investment in new gas generation planned</B></FONT></TD></TR>
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    <TD STYLE="border-right: white 2.25pt solid; border-bottom: white 2.25pt solid; border-left: white 2.25pt solid; font: 10pt Arial, Helvetica, Sans-Serif; padding: 12.15pt; background-color: #0072BD"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif; font-size: 9pt; color: white"><B>POLICY
    INFLUENCE</B></FONT></TD>
    <TD STYLE="border-right: white 2.25pt solid; border-bottom: white 2.25pt solid; font: 10pt Arial, Helvetica, Sans-Serif; padding: 12.15pt; background-color: #F25025; text-align: center"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif; font-size: 10pt; color: white"><B>3.1</B></FONT></TD>
    <TD STYLE="border-right: white 2.25pt solid; border-bottom: white 2.25pt solid; font: 10pt Arial, Helvetica, Sans-Serif; padding: 12.15pt; background-color: #0072BD"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Sans-Serif; font-size: 9pt; color: White"><B>Alignment
    of policy influence activities with net zero target and limiting warming to 1.5&deg;C</B></FONT></TD></TR>
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</SUP>MJBradley, &ldquo;Emissions Data Charts&rdquo;, <FONT STYLE="color: #1155CC"><U>https://www.mjbradley.com/content/emissions-benchmarking-emissions-charts</U></FONT> accessed
Apr 27, 2022</FONT></P>

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</SUP>MJBradley, &ldquo;Generation Data Charts,&rdquo; <FONT STYLE="color: #1155CC"><U>https://www.mjbradley.com/content/emissions-benchmarking-generation-charts</U></FONT> accessed
Apr 27, 2022</FONT></P>

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</SUP>Climate Action 100+, &ldquo;Companies&rdquo;, <FONT STYLE="color: #1155CC"><U>https://www.climateaction100.org/whos-involved/companies/</U></FONT></FONT></P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Arial, Helvetica, Sans-Serif; margin: 0pt 0"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Sans-Serif; font-size: 8pt"><SUP>4
</SUP>U.S. Energy Information Agency, &ldquo;(FAQs) What are U.S. energy-related carbon dioxide emissions by source and sector?&rdquo;
<FONT STYLE="color: #1155CC"><U>https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.php?id=75&amp;t=11</U></FONT>, accessed Mar 23, 2022</FONT></P>

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</SUP>MJBradley, <I>Benchmarking Air Emissions</I>, July 2020, <FONT STYLE="color: #1155CC"><U>https://www.mjbradley.com/sites/default/files/Presentation_of_Results_2020.pdf</U></FONT>,
p. 3 and p. 7.</FONT></P>

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</SUP>The Office of the Illinois State Treasurer, <I>Memo on Southern Company Flagged Vote</I>, <FONT STYLE="color: #1155CC"><U>https://illinoistreasurergovprod.blob.core.usgovcloudapi.net/twocms/media/doc/memo%20on%20southern%20company%20flagged%20vote_final.pdf</U></FONT></FONT></P>
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</SUP>Climate Action 100+, &ldquo;Climate Action 100+ Flagged Shareholder Votes&rdquo;, <FONT STYLE="color: #1155CC"><U>https://www.climateaction100.org/approach/proxy-season/</U></FONT></FONT></P>

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</SUP>CDP, <I>2021 Climate Disclosure: Southern Company</I>, <FONT STYLE="color: #1155CC"><U>https://www.southerncompany.com/content/dam/southerncompany/pdfs/about/governance/reports/CDP-Climate-Disclosure-2021.pdf</U></FONT> p. 50</FONT></P>
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</SUP>Southern Company, &ldquo;Southern Company expects to achieve GHG emissions reduction goal significantly ahead of schedule&rdquo;
Apr 5, 2021, <FONT STYLE="color: #1155CC"><U>https://www.southerncompany.com/newsroom/clean-energy/southern-company-expects-to-achieve-interim-greenhouse-gas-emiss.html</U></FONT></FONT></P>

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</SUP>IEA, <I>Achieving Net Zero Electricity Sectors in G7 Members</I>, <FONT STYLE="color: #1155CC"><U>https://iea.blob.core.windows.net/assets/9a1c057a-385a-4659-80c5-3ff40f217370/AchievingNetZeroElectricitySectorsinG7Members.pdf</U></FONT> p. 38</FONT></P>

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</SUP>Southern Company, <I>Implementation and action toward net zero</I>, Sep 2020 <FONT STYLE="color: #1155CC"><U>https://www.southerncompany.com/content/dam/southerncompany/pdfs/clean-energy/Net-zero-report.pdf</U></FONT> p. 12</FONT></P>

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</SUP>Tom Dowdall, &ldquo;Science-Based Net-Zero Targets: &lsquo;Less Net, more Zero&rdquo;, Science-Based Targets, <FONT STYLE="color: #1155CC"><U>https://sciencebasedtargets.org/blog/science-based-net-zero-targets-less-net-more-zero</U></FONT></FONT></P>

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</SUP>Southern Company, <I>Implementation and action toward net zero</I>, Sep 2020 <FONT STYLE="color: #1155CC"><U>https://www.southerncompany.com/content/dam/southerncompany/pdfs/clean-energy/Net-zero-report.pdf</U></FONT> p. 15</FONT></P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Arial, Helvetica, Sans-Serif; margin: 0pt 0"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Sans-Serif; font-size: 8pt">Note:
Southern Company also acknowledges a plan to incorporate negative carbon strategies into its approach to reducing carbon emissions
p. 24</FONT></P>

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</SUP>Southern Company, Shareholder Update, March 2022, <FONT STYLE="color: #1155CC"><U>https://s27.q4cdn.com/273397814/files/doc_presentations/2022/03/Southern-Shareholder-Update_March_2022_032322.pdf</U></FONT> pp. 15, 17</FONT></P>

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</SUP>Sweeney et al, &ldquo;More than 23 GW of coal capacity to retire in 2028 as plant closures accelerate&rdquo;, <I>S&amp;P
Global</I>, Feb 10, 2022, <FONT STYLE="color: #1155CC"><U>https://www.spglobal.com/marketintelligence/en/news-insights/latest-news-headlines/more-than-23-gw-of-coal-capacity-to-retire-in-2028-as-plant-closures-accelerate-68709205</U></FONT></FONT></P>

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</SUP>Southern Company, Shareholder Update, March 2022, <FONT STYLE="color: #1155CC"><U>https://s27.q4cdn.com/273397814/files/doc_presentations/2022/03/Southern-Shareholder-Update_March_2022_032322.pdf</U></FONT> p. 17</FONT></P>
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</SUP>Public Service Commission of Mississippi, <I>Order: Mississippi Power Company&rsquo;s Reserve Margin Plan</I>, Dec 17, 2020,
<FONT STYLE="color: #1155CC"><U>https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/20441197-2020-12-17-order#document/p6/a2011024</U></FONT>
p. 6</FONT></P>

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</SUP>Southern Company, <I>2021 Annual Report</I>, <FONT STYLE="color: #1155CC"><U>https://s27.q4cdn.com/273397814/files/doc_financials/2021/ar/Southern-Company-2021-Annual-Report.pdf</U></FONT> pp. 32-33. Note: The MPC 2021 IRP included a schedule to retire Plant Watson Unit 4 (268 MWs) and MPC&rsquo;s 40% ownership
interest in Plant Greene County Units 1 and 2 (103 MWs each) in December 2023, 2025, and 2026, respectively, and the early retirement
of MPC&rsquo;s 50% undivided ownership interest in Plant Daniel Units 1 and 2 (502 MWs) by the end of 2027.</FONT></P>

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</SUP>Abbie Bennett, &ldquo;Southern Co. plans to retire, repower fossil-fueled plants&rdquo;, <I>S&amp;P Global</I>, <FONT STYLE="color: #1155CC"><U>https://www.spglobal.com/marketintelligence/en/news-insights/latest-news-headlines/southern-co-plans-to-retire-repower-fossil-fueled-plants-67673301</U></FONT></FONT></P>

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</SUP>Darrell Proctor, &ldquo;Alabama Coal Plant Tops List of Emitters&rdquo;, <I>Power Magazine</I>, Apr 30, 2021, <FONT STYLE="color: #1155CC"><U>https://www.powermag.com/alabama-coal-plant-tops-list-of-emitters/</U></FONT></FONT></P>

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</SUP>Iulia Gheorghiu, &ldquo;Georgia Power to go coal-free by 2028, double renewables by 2035, but advocates decry gas plans&rdquo;,
Utility Dive, Feb 3, 2022, <FONT STYLE="color: #1155CC"><U>https://www.utilitydive.com/news/georgia-power-to-go-coal-free-by-2028-double-renewables-by-2035-but-advoc/618251/</U></FONT></FONT></P>

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</SUP>Iulia Gheorghiu, &ldquo;Georgia Power to go coal-free by 2028, double renewables by 2035, but advocates decry gas plans&rdquo;,
Utility Dive, Feb 3, 2022, <FONT STYLE="color: #1155CC"><U>https://www.utilitydive.com/news/georgia-power-to-go-coal-free-by-2028-double-renewables-by-2035-but-advoc/618251/</U></FONT></FONT></P>

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</SUP>David Pomerantz, &ldquo;Alabama Power to buy Calhoun plant despite rising gas prices&rdquo;, Energy and Policy Institute,
Nov 22, 2021, ht<FONT STYLE="color: #1155CC">tps://www.energyandpolicy.org/alabama-power-calhoun/</FONT></FONT></P>

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</SUP>InfluenceMap, &ldquo;LobbyMap: Southern Company,&rdquo; Accessed Apr 27, 2022, <FONT STYLE="color: #1155CC"><U>https://lobbymap.org/company/Southern-Company</U></FONT></FONT></P>

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</SUP>Dave Williams, &ldquo;Critics warn bill before General Assembly threatens local embrace of clean energy,&rdquo; <I>Capital
Beat News Service</I>, Feb 8, 2021, <FONT STYLE="color: #1155CC"><U>https://www.savannahnow.com/story/news/2021/02/08/legislation-clean-energy-global-warming-cities-fight-climate-change/4410949001/</U></FONT></FONT></P>

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</SUP>McIntyre &amp; Murrow, &ldquo;House Proposes Strong Clean Electricity Performance Program&rdquo;, <I>NRDC</I>, Sep 14, 2021,
<FONT STYLE="color: #1155CC"><U>https://www.nrdc.org/experts/yvonne-mcintyre/house-proposes-strong-clean-electricity-performance-program</U></FONT></FONT></P>

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</SUP>American Gas Association, &ldquo;Kimberly Greene of Southern Company Gas Elected Chair of AGA Board of Directors&rdquo;,
Oct 12, 2021, <FONT STYLE="color: #1155CC"><U>https://www.aga.org/news/news-releases/kimberly-greene-of-southern-company-gas-elected-chair-of-aga-board-of-directors/</U></FONT>.
Note: Prior to being elected chair, Greene served on the AGA&rsquo;s board of directors: <FONT STYLE="color: #1155CC"><U>https://www.southerncompany.com/content/dam/southerncompany/pdfs/about/leadership/Kim_Greene-SC_bio.pdf</U></FONT></FONT></P>

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</SUP>Timothy Cama, &ldquo;Energy companies boost lobbying amid reconciliation fight&rdquo;, <I>E&amp;E News</I>, Oct 26, 2021,
<FONT STYLE="color: #1155CC"><U>https://www.eenews.net/articles/energy-companies-boost-lobbying-amid-reconciliation-fight/</U></FONT></FONT></P>

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</SUP>IPCC, <I>Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5&deg;C., </I>2018<I>, </I><U>https://www.ipcc.ch/site/assets/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/SR15_Full_Report_Low_Res.pdf</U> , pp. v, 5, 7-10, 95-97 and 116</FONT></P>

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</SUP>International Energy Agency (IEA), <I>Net Zero by 2050: A Roadmap for the Global Energy Sector, </I>May 2021. <U>https://www.iea.org/reports/net-zero-by-2050</U>,
Slide 8.</FONT></P>

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</SUP>IPCC. <I>Special Report on Climate Change and Land, Summary for Policy Makers</I>,January, 2020, <U>https://www.ipcc.ch/site/assets/uploads/sites/4/2020/02/SPM_Updated-Jan20.pdf</U>,
pp 23-24 and 26.</FONT></P>

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</SUP>Climate Action 100+: Net-Zero Company Benchmark Company Assessments <U>https://www.climateaction100.org/progress/net-zero-company-benchmark/</U></FONT></P>

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</SUP>U.S. Energy Information Agency, &ldquo;FAQs: What are U.S. energy-related carbon dioxide emissions by source and sector?,&rdquo;
<FONT STYLE="color: #1155CC"><U>https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.php?id=75&amp;t=11</U></FONT></FONT></P>

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</SUP>MJBradley &amp; Associates, <I>Benchmarking Air Emissions of the 100 Largest Electric Power Producers in the United States</I>,
<FONT STYLE="color: #1155CC"><U>https://www.mjbradley.com/sites/default/files/Presentation_of_Results_2020.pdf</U></FONT> p. 9</FONT></P>

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</SUP>IIGCC as part of Climate Action 100+, <I>GLOBAL SECTOR STRATEGIES: INVESTOR INTERVENTIONS TO ACCELERATE NET ZERO ELECTRIC
UTILITIES</I>, Oct 2021, <FONT STYLE="color: #1155CC"><U>https://www.climateaction100.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Global-Sector-Strategy-Electric-Utilities-IIGCC-Oct-21.pdf</U></FONT> p. 26</FONT></P>

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</SUP>IPCC, <I>Special Report: GLOBAL WARMING OF 1.5 &ordm; Summary for Policy Makers</I>, <FONT STYLE="color: #1155CC"><U>https://www.ipcc.ch/sr15/chapter/spm/</U></FONT> p. C1</FONT></P>
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</SUP>International Energy Agency, <I>Net Zero by 2050 A Roadmap for the Global Energy Sector</I>,</FONT></P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Arial, Helvetica, Sans-Serif; margin: 0pt 0"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Sans-Serif; font-size: 10pt; color: #1155CC"><U>https://iea.blob.core.windows.net/assets/deebef5d-0c34-4539-9d0c-10b13d840027/NetZeroby2050-ARoadmapfortheGlobalEnergySector_CORR.pdf</U></FONT><FONT STYLE="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Sans-Serif; font-size: 10pt"> p.
20</FONT></P>

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</SUP>IIGCC as part of Climate Action 100+, <I>GLOBAL SECTOR STRATEGIES: INVESTOR INTERVENTIONS TO ACCELERATE NET ZERO ELECTRIC
UTILITIES</I>, Oct 2021, <U>https://www.climateaction100.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Global-Sector-Strategy-Electric-Utilities-IIGCC-Oct-21.pdf</U></FONT><FONT STYLE="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Sans-Serif; font-size: 10pt"> p. 10</FONT></P>

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</SUP>IEA, Achieving Net Zero Electricity Sectors in G7 Members,</FONT></P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Arial, Helvetica, Sans-Serif; margin: 0pt 0"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Sans-Serif; font-size: 10pt; color: #1155CC"><U>https://iea.blob.core.windows.net/assets/9a1c057a-385a-4659-80c5-3ff40f217370/AchievingNetZeroElectricitySectorsinG7Members.pdf</U></FONT><FONT STYLE="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Sans-Serif; font-size: 10pt"> p. 92</FONT></P>

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</SUP>IEA, Achieving Net Zero Electricity Sectors in G7 Members, <FONT STYLE="color: #1155CC"><U>https://iea.blob.core.windows.net/assets/9a1c057a-385a-4659-80c5-3ff40f217370/AchievingNetZeroElectricitySectorsinG7Members.pdf</U></FONT> p. 38</FONT></P>

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</SUP>Science Based Targets, &ldquo;Science-Based Net-Zero Targets: &lsquo;Less Net, more Zero&rsquo;,&rdquo; <FONT STYLE="color: #1155CC"><U>https://sciencebasedtargets.org/blog/science-based-net-zero-targets-less-net-more-zero</U></FONT></FONT></P>

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</SUP>Climate Action 100+, &ldquo;Companies,&rdquo; <FONT STYLE="color: #1155CC"><U>https://www.climateaction100.org/whos-involved/companies/</U></FONT></FONT></P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Arial, Helvetica, Sans-Serif; margin: 0pt 0"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Sans-Serif; font-size: 10pt"><SUP>43
</SUP>Science Based Targets, <I>SETTING 1.5&deg;C-ALIGNED SCIENCE-BASED TARGETS: QUICK START GUIDE FOR ELECTRIC UTILITIES</I>,
June 2020, <FONT STYLE="color: #1155CC"><U>https://sciencebasedtargets.org/resources/legacy/2020/06/SBTi-Power-Sector-15C-guide-FINAL.pdf</U></FONT></FONT></P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Arial, Helvetica, Sans-Serif; margin: 0pt 0"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Sans-Serif; font-size: 10pt"><SUP>44
</SUP>Science Based Targets, &ldquo;Companies Taking Action&rdquo; <FONT STYLE="color: #1155CC"><U>https://sciencebasedtargets.org/companies-taking-action</U></FONT></FONT></P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Arial, Helvetica, Sans-Serif; margin: 0pt 0"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Sans-Serif; font-size: 10pt"><SUP>45
</SUP>Science Based Targets, &ldquo;Sector Guidance&rdquo; <FONT STYLE="color: #1155CC"><U>https://sciencebasedtargets.org/sectors</U></FONT></FONT></P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Arial, Helvetica, Sans-Serif; margin: 0pt 0"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Sans-Serif; font-size: 10pt"><SUP>46
</SUP>CDP, <FONT STYLE="color: #1155CC"><U>https://www.cdp.net/en</U></FONT></FONT></P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Arial, Helvetica, Sans-Serif; margin: 0pt 0"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Sans-Serif; font-size: 10pt"><SUP>47
</SUP>James H. Williams et al., &ldquo;Carbon-Neutral Pathways for the United States,&rdquo; <I>Advancing Earth and Space Science</I>,
<FONT STYLE="color: #1155CC"><U>https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1029/2020AV000284</U></FONT>, 2021, p. 20</FONT></P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Arial, Helvetica, Sans-Serif; margin: 0pt 0"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Sans-Serif; font-size: 10pt"><SUP>48
</SUP>Eric Larson et al., &ldquo;Net-Zero America: Potential Pathways, Infrastructure, and Impacts,&rdquo; Princeton University,
October 21, 2021, <FONT STYLE="color: #1155CC"><U>https://www.dropbox.com/s/ptp92f65lgds5n2/Princeton%20NZA%20FINAL%20REPORT%20%2829Oct2021%29.pdf?dl=0</U></FONT> p. 29</FONT></P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Arial, Helvetica, Sans-Serif; margin: 0pt 0"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Sans-Serif; font-size: 10pt"><SUP>49
</SUP>Climate Analytics, <I>Global and regional coal phase-out requirements of the Paris Agreement: Insights from the IPCC Special
Report on 1.5&deg;C</I>, Sep 2019 <FONT STYLE="color: #1155CC"><U>https://climateanalytics.org/media/report_coal_phase_out_2019.pdf</U></FONT> at &ldquo;key messages&rdquo;,</FONT></P>

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</SUP>IEA, <I>Net Zero by 2050 A Roadmap for the Global Energy Sector</I>, October 2021,</FONT></P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Arial, Helvetica, Sans-Serif; margin: 0pt 0"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Sans-Serif; font-size: 10pt; color: #1155CC"><U>https://iea.blob.core.windows.net/assets/deebef5d-0c34-4539-9d0c-10b13d840027/NetZeroby2050-ARoadmapfortheGlobalEnergySector_CORR.pdf</U></FONT><FONT STYLE="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Sans-Serif; font-size: 10pt"> p. 20</FONT></P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Arial, Helvetica, Sans-Serif; margin: 0pt 0"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Sans-Serif; font-size: 10pt"><SUP>51
</SUP>ERIC GIMON et al., &ldquo;THE COAL COST CROSSOVER: ECONOMIC VIABILITY OF EXISTING COAL COMPARED TO NEW LOCAL WIND AND SOLAR
RESOURCES,&rdquo; <I>Energy Innovation</I>, Mar 2019, <FONT STYLE="color: #1155CC"><U>https://energyinnovation.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Coal-Cost-Crossover_Energy-Innovation_VCE_FINAL.pdf</U></FONT> p. 1</FONT></P>

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</SUP>ERIC GIMON et al., &ldquo;THE COAL COST CROSSOVER: ECONOMIC VIABILITY OF EXISTING COAL COMPARED TO NEW LOCAL WIND AND SOLAR
RESOURCES,&rdquo; <I>Energy Innovation</I>, Mar 2019, <FONT STYLE="color: #1155CC"><U>https://energyinnovation.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Coal-Cost-Crossover_Energy-Innovation_VCE_FINAL2.pdf</U></FONT> p. 11</FONT></P>

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</SUP>Goldman School of Public Policy, &ldquo;2035 THE REPORT: PLUMMETING SOLAR, WIND, AND BATTERY COSTS CAN ACCELERATE OUR CLEAN
ELECTRICITY FUTURE,&rdquo; <I>University of California Berkeley</I>, June 2020, <FONT STYLE="color: #1155CC">http://www.2035report.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/2035-Report.pdf?hsCtaTracking=8a85e9ea-4ed3-4ec0-b4c6-906934306ddb%7Cc68c2ac2-1db0-4d1c-82a1-65ef4daaf6c1
</FONT>p. 25</FONT></P>

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</SUP>Stanley Porter et al., &ldquo;Utility decarbonization strategies: Renew, reshape, and refuel to zero,&rdquo; <I>Deloitte</I>,
Sep 21, 2020, <FONT STYLE="color: #1155CC"><U>https://www2.deloitte.com/us/en/insights/industry/power-and-utilities/utility-decarbonization-strategies.html</U></FONT></FONT></P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Arial, Helvetica, Sans-Serif; margin: 0pt 0"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Sans-Serif; font-size: 10pt"><SUP>55
</SUP>Stanley Porter et al., &ldquo;Utility decarbonization strategies: Renew, reshape, and refuel to zero,&rdquo; <I>Deloitte</I>,
Sep 21, 2020, <FONT STYLE="color: #1155CC"><U>https://www2.deloitte.com/us/en/insights/industry/power-and-utilities/utility-decarbonization-strategies.html</U></FONT></FONT></P>

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</SUP>ANNE-SOPHIE CORBEAU, &ldquo;The Global Energy Crisis: Implications of Record High Natural Gas Prices,&rdquo; <I>Columbia
SIPA Center on Global Energy Policy</I>, Oct 20, 2021, <FONT STYLE="color: #1155CC"><U>https://www.energypolicy.columbia.edu/research/commentary/global-energy-crisis-implications-record-high-natural-gas-prices</U></FONT></FONT></P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Arial, Helvetica, Sans-Serif; margin: 0pt 0"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Sans-Serif; font-size: 10pt"><SUP>57
</SUP>Climate Action 100+, Companies, <FONT STYLE="color: #1155CC"><U>https://www.climateaction100.org/whos-involved/companies/</U></FONT></FONT></P>

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</SUP>Carbon Tracker Initiative, <FONT STYLE="color: #1155CC"><U>https://carbontracker.org/</U></FONT></FONT></P>

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</SUP>Carbon Tracker Initiative, &ldquo;Company profiles,&rdquo; <FONT STYLE="color: #1155CC"><U>https://carbontracker.org/company-profiles/</U></FONT></FONT></P>

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</SUP>Sierra Club, The Dirty Truth About Utility Climate Pledges, <FONT STYLE="color: #1155CC"><U>https://coal.sierraclub.org/the-problem/dirty-truth-greenwashing-utilities</U></FONT></FONT></P>

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</SUP>John Romankiewicz, Utility Dashboard, <FONT STYLE="color: #1155CC"><U>https://public.tableau.com/app/profile/john.romankiewicz/viz/Utilitydashboard/Story1</U></FONT></FONT></P>

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</SUP>Yvonne McIntyre &amp; Derek Murrow, &ldquo;House Proposes Strong Clean Electricity Performance Program,&rdquo; <I>NRDC</I>,
Sep 14, 2021, <FONT STYLE="color: #1155CC"><U>https://www.nrdc.org/experts/yvonne-mcintyre/house-proposes-strong-clean-electricity-performance-program</U></FONT></FONT></P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Arial, Helvetica, Sans-Serif; margin: 0pt 0"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Sans-Serif; font-size: 10pt"><SUP>63
</SUP>Climate Action 100+, &ldquo;Companies,&rdquo; <FONT STYLE="color: #1155CC"><U>https://www.climateaction100.org/whos-involved/companies/</U></FONT></FONT></P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Arial, Helvetica, Sans-Serif; margin: 0pt 0"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Sans-Serif; font-size: 10pt"><SUP>64
</SUP>InfluenceMap, <FONT STYLE="color: #1155CC"><U>https://influencemap.org/index.html</U></FONT></FONT></P>

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</SUP>LobbyMap, &ldquo;Company Profiles,&rdquo; <FONT STYLE="color: #1155CC"><U>https://lobbymap.org/filter/List-of-Companies-and-Influencers#1</U></FONT></FONT></P>

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</SUP>Energy and Policy Institute, <FONT STYLE="color: #1155CC"><U>https://www.energyandpolicy.org/</U></FONT></FONT></P>

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