Coweta-Fayette EMC

Established in 1945, Coweta-Fayette EMC is a locally owned and managed company that provides electricity distribution services for residential, commercial and industrial properties. It is a nonprofit cooperative and has more than 70,000 members. The cooperative operates over 5,000 miles of distribution lines throughout Coweta, Fayette and Fulton counties in Georgia. It supplies a variety of products from Relyco, including pagers and home theater and security monitoring systems. The cooperative additionally provides interior sirens, panic buttons, touch pads and smoke sensors. It offers levelized billing, senior citizen discount and online bill payment services. The cooperative is financed by loans from the National Rural Utilities Finance Corporation and Rural Electrification Administration. Coweta-Fayette EMC has a staff of nearly 170 employees and is headquartered in Palmetto, Ga.

Southern Company is a regional energy company with more than 40,000 megawatts of electric generating capacity in the Southeast. It is one of the largest producers of electricity in the United States. The company supplies energy to a 120,000-square-mile service territory throughout most of Georgia and Alabama, southeastern Mississippi and the panhandle region of Florida. It is ranked in the top 200 in the FORTUNE 500 listing of the largest United States corporations. Southern Company owns five regulated retail electric utilities: Alabama Power, Georgia Power, Gulf Power, Mississippi Power and Savannah Electric. It also owns Southern Nuclear and Southern Company Gas. David M. Ratcliffe has been the chief executive officer of Southern Company for more than two years. He has been with the utility company for over 35 years. Ratcliffe attended Valdosta State University. The company trades on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol SO. It is headquartered in Atlanta.

Georgia Power is the largest subsidiary of Southern Company, one of the largest generators of electricity in the United States. The company is an investor-owned, tax-paying utility, serving more than 2 million customers. Through the Georgia Power Foundation, the company has contributed more than $70 million to qualifying nonprofit agencies since its inception in 1986. Georgia Power is also one of the largest nongovernment providers of recreation facilities in the state. The company is responsible for more than 10 reservoirs throughout Georgia, including over 60,000-acres of lakes, about 1,000 miles of shoreline, and parks developed for family enjoyment. The company leases more than 30,000-acres of prime hunting land to Georgia for use as wildlife management areas operated by the Wildlife Resources Division of the Department of Natural Resources. Georgia Power is headquartered in Atlanta.