Chris Womack

Chris Womack serves as Chairman, President, and CEO of Southern Company, one of America's largest electric and gas utility holding companies. Southern Company serves over 9 million customers through its regulated electric utilities (Georgia Power, Alabama Power, Mississippi Power) and gas distribution utilities (Southern Company Gas, serving customers in Georgia, Illinois, Virginia, and Tennessee). The defining achievement of recent years was bringing Plant Vogtle Units 3 and 4 — the first new nuclear reactors built in the United States in over 30 years — into commercial operation. While the project suffered massive cost overruns and schedule delays (total cost approximately $35 billion versus original estimates of $14 billion), the operational reactors now provide decades of carbon-free baseload electricity and increasingly valuable firm clean power capacity as data center demand surges. Southern Company operates in the Southeastern United States, one of the fastest-growing regions in America by population, economic activity, and electricity demand. The region is attracting massive data center investment, manufacturing reshoring, and EV factory construction — all of which drive electricity load growth. Key stock drivers include regulated rate base growth, load growth from data centers and manufacturing, Vogtle operational performance, renewable energy and battery storage investment, natural gas distribution expansion, regulatory outcomes in key states, and the overall demand for clean baseload power.