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The Southern Company (the “Company”) proposes to file with the Securities and Exchange Commission a registration statement or statements under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, with respect to the issuance and sale of an indeterminate amount or number of common stock, preferred stock, debt securities, purchase contracts, and units, and any necessary or appropriate amendments (including post-effective amendments) to such registration statement or statements.

The Company and the undersigned directors and officers of the Company, individually as a director and/or as an officer of the Company, hereby make, constitute and appoint each of you our true and lawful Attorney (with full power of substitution) for each of us and in each of our names, places and steads to sign and cause to be filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission the aforementioned registration statement or statements and any appropriate amendment or amendments (including post-effective amendments) thereto or to the Company’s previously filed shelf registration statement (File No. 333-277138), which may be accompanied in each case by a prospectus or any appropriately amended prospectus or supplement thereto and any necessary exhibits.

The Company hereby authorizes you or any one of you to execute said registration statement or statements and any amendments (including post-effective amendments) thereto or to the Company’s previously filed shelf registration statement (File No. 333-277138) on its behalf as attorney-in-fact for it and its authorized officers, and to file the same as aforesaid.

The undersigned directors and officers of the Company hereby authorize you or any of you to sign said registration statement or statements on their behalf as attorney-in-fact and any necessary or appropriate amendment or amendments (including post-effective amendments) thereto or to the Company’s previously filed shelf registration statement (File No. 333-277138) and to file the same as aforesaid.


/s/Janaki Akella						/s/William G. Smith, Jr
Janaki Akella						William G. Smith, Jr
/s/Shantella E. Cooper						/s/Kristine L. Svinicki
Shantella E. Cooper						Kristine L. Svinicki
/s/Anthony F. Earley, Jr.						/s/Lizanne Thomas
Anthony F. Earley, Jr.						Lizanne Thomas
/s/James O. Etheredge						/s/John M. Turner, Jr.
James O. Etheredge						John M. Turner, Jr.
/s/David J. Grain						/s/Christopher C. Womack
David J. Grain						Christopher C. Womack
/s/John D. Johns						/s/David P. Poroch
John D. Johns						David P. Poroch
/s/David E. Meador						/s/Matthew M. Kim
David E. Meador						Matthew M. Kim

RESOLVED FURTHER: That for the purpose of signing the registration statement or statements under the Securities Act to be filed with the Commission and any amendment or amendments (including post-effective amendments) thereto or to the Company’s previously filed shelf registration statement (File No. 333-277138), the Company, the members of its Board of Directors and its officers are hereby authorized to give their several powers of attorney to Christopher C. Womack, David P. Poroch and Melissa K. Caen; and

The undersigned officer of The Southern Company does hereby certify that the foregoing is a true and correct copy of a resolution duly and regularly adopted at a meeting of the board of directors of The Southern Company, duly held on April 20, 2026, at which a quorum was in attendance and voting throughout, and that said resolution has not since been rescinded but is still in full force and effect.


			Yours very truly,
			THE SOUTHERN COMPANY
			By			/s/Christopher C. Womack
						Christopher C. Womack Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer


Dated: June 5, 2026	THE SOUTHERN COMPANY
	By	/s/Melissa K. Caen
		Melissa K. Caen Assistant Secretary