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                          Certificate of Notification

                                    Filed by

                              GEORGIA POWER COMPANY

         Pursuant to an order of the Securities and Exchange Commission dated
October 23, 2002 in the matter of File No. 70-10073.

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         Georgia Power Company (GEORGIA) hereby certifies to said Commission,
pursuant to Rule 24 of the Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935, as
amended, with respect to its financing subsidiaries and in accordance with the
terms and conditions of and for the purposes represented by the statement on
Form U-1, as amended, in the above matter at the end of the fourth quarter of
2004 that:

1.   GEORGIA accounts for the special purpose subsidiaries created as a
     result of this authorization under the equity method in accordance with
     Financial Accounting Standards Board Interpretation No. 46R,
     "Consolidation of Variable Interest Entities."

2.   The names of the subsidiaries are:

     Georgia Power Capital Trust VI
     Georgia Power Capital Trust VII

3.   The values of GEORGIA's investment accounts in the subsidiaries are:

     Georgia Power Capital Trust VI     $9,279,000
     Georgia Power Capital Trust VII    $6,185,575

4.   The balance sheet account where the cost of the investment in Georgia
     Power Capital Trust VI and Georgia Power Capital Trust VII is recorded
     is "Investments in Subsidiary Companies."

     Both of these accounts are included in "Equity investments in
     unconsolidated subsidiaries" on GEORGIA's balance sheet in the Form
     10-K for the year ended December 31, 2004.

5.   The amounts invested in financing subsidiaries by GEORGIA are:

     Georgia Power Capital Trust VI     $9,279,000
     Georgia Power Capital Trust VII    $6,185,575

6.   Georgia Power Capital Trust VI and Georgia Power Capital Trust VI are
     Delaware statutory trusts.

7.   GEORGIA owns 100% of the Common Securities of Georgia Power Capital
     Trust VI and Georgia Power Capital Trust VII.




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8.   There are no other owners of Georgia Power Capital Trust VI or Georgia
     Power Capital Trust VII.

9.   The purposes of GEORGIA's investment in Georgia Power Capital Trust VI
     and its investment in Georgia Power Capital Trust VII were to issue
     Trust Preferred Securities.

10.  a.       Georgia Power Capital Trust VI issued $300,000,000 aggregate
              liquidation amount of Flexible Trust Preferred Securities on
              November 6, 2002. The proceeds of the preferred securities and
              GEORGIA's equity investment were loaned to GEORGIA through the
              sale of $309,279,000 junior subordinated notes to Georgia
              Power Capital Trust VI.

     b.       Georgia Power Capital Trust VII issued $200,000,000 aggregate
              liquidation amount of 5 7/8% Trust Preferred Securities on
              January 23, 2004. The proceeds of the preferred securities and
              GEORGIA's equity investment were loaned to GEORGIA through the
              sale of $206,185,575 junior subordinated notes to Georgia
              Power Capital Trust VII.

                                    SIGNATURE

Pursuant to the requirements of the Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935,
as amended, the undersigned company has duly caused this certificate to be
signed on its behalf by the undersigned thereunto duly authorized.

Dated:  January 31, 2005                                GEORGIA POWER COMPANY




                                                        By: /s/Wayne Boston
                                                             Wayne Boston
                                                          Assistant Secretary

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