Update 2023-02-15: New CEOs for Southern Company and Georgia Power 2023-01-09.

The future CEO of Georgia Power visited 5701 Quarterman Road in Lowndes County in 2019 to inspect a completely rebuilt methane pipeline station.

Movie: Kim Greene, CEO, Southern Company Gas

This, on my property, is where the Atlanta Gas Light (AGL) pipeline starts that goes to Homerville, GA, where in 2018 its gas blew up a coffee shop and sent three women to Shands in Gainesville, FL, with third-degree burns.

But the rebuild had nothing to do with that event.

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Bryan Batson, CEO of Atlanta Gas Light, in the video refers to the “Quarterman Rule” by which AGL has gotten street addresses for many of their stations, starting with this one, because of my complaints that it took a long time just to get AGL’s phone answerers to understand where a leak was.

5701 Quarterman Rd.

The rebuild was caused by me two years running hissing at Southern Company CEO Tom Fanning in the SO Stockholder Meeting about the loud noise that pipeline station made.

Hissing at SO Stockholder Meeting 2017-05-24

Nothing happened after the first time, May 24, 2017.

But the second year (2018), Tom Fanning turned to Kim Greene, then incoming as CEO of Southern Company Gas, and he said fix this. Eventually she did. Well, partly.

You can hear her on this second video saying Southern Company only owns half of Southern Natural Gas (SONAT), which still produces a loud noise.

• Improvements so far –Kim Greene
  

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And it turns out, according to her and Southern Company CEO Tom Fanning, SO does not own that specific SONAT station. So nothing has been done about stopping the endless hiss from the SONAT station.

• Ready to head for the airport
  

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AGL did produce the sound study, which showed that there was less sound, but they could not separate out the noise from the SONAT station.

At the 2019 Southern Company Stockholder Meeting I thanked AGL for this this station upgrade, and I characterized it as a gold-plated horse buggy in an electric vehicle world. I think they liked the first part. I’ll like it better if Southern Company ever gets SONAT to stop their station from hissing. I’ll like it even better when both companies take their pipelines back to Atlanta, as I told Kim Greene.

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Kim Greene, CEO, Southern Company Gas, at 5701 Quarterman Road 2019-05-10
Lowndes County, Georgia.
Video by John S. Quarterman for Lowndes Area Knowledge Exchange (LAKE).

Kim Greene was then and still is chairman, president, and CEO of Southern Company Gas, but not for much longer.

Kim Greene thanks

I’ll come back to the changes at the top of Southern Company, but for now look at the two items I’ve boldfaced, with Kim Greene moving up to Georgia Power and James Y. (Jim) Kerr II succeeding her at Southern Company Gas.

ATLANTA, Jan. 5, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — The Board of Directors of Southern Company today announced that, effective March 31, 2023, Chris Womack has been appointed president of Southern Company and elected as a member of the Board of Directors of Southern Company. Womack also has been appointed CEO of Southern Company effective immediately following the conclusion of Southern Company’s 2023 Annual Meeting of Stockholders. Effective as of March 31, 2023, the Board of Directors of Southern Company also increased the size of the Board of Directors of Southern Company from 13 to 14 in connection with the election of Womack to the Board.

Thomas A. Fanning, 65, the current chairman of the Board, CEO and president of Southern Company, will relinquish the role of president upon Womack’s assumption of the role in March and assume the role of Executive Chairman of the Board of Directors upon Womack’s assumption of the role of CEO.

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Effective as of March 31, 2023, Kimberly S. (Kim) Greene, 56, has been named chair of the Board of Directors, CEO and president of Georgia Power.

Effective immediately, Jeff Peoples, 63, has been named chairman of the Board of Directors, CEO and president of Alabama Power.

Effective as of March 31, 2023, James Y. (Jim) Kerr II, 58, has been named chairman of the Board of Directors, CEO and president of Southern Company Gas.

Effective as of March 31, 2023, Peter (Pete) P. Sena III, 59, has been named president of Southern Nuclear and remains as Chief Nuclear Officer. Stephen Kuczynski will remain chairman and CEO of Southern Nuclear.

At the time Bryan Batson was President and CEO of Atlanta Gas Light (AGL), a subsidiary of Southern Company Gas. That changed a year later.

Bryan Batson ready to go to the airport

AGL PR, 22 June 2020, Bryan Batson promoted to executive vice president of external affairs and chief external and public affairs officer; Pedro Cherry takes the reins as president and CEO of Atlanta Gas Light and Chattanooga Gas,

ATLANTA — June 22, 2020 — Southern Company Gas has named Bryan Batson executive vice president of external affairs and chief external and public affairs officer, following eight years of service as president of its subsidiaries Atlanta Gas Light and Chattanooga Gas. Pedro Cherry, currently executive vice president of customer service and operations at Southern Company Gas’ sister company Georgia Power, will succeed Batson as president and CEO of Atlanta Gas Light and Chattanooga Gas. Both changes will be effective Aug. 1.

In his new role, Batson will oversee external affairs, corporate communications, marketing, customer service, community relations, economic development and environmental affairs at Southern Company Gas. Additionally, he will serve as president of the Southern Company Gas Charitable Foundation, which donates millions of dollars in grants annually to nonprofits focused on the environment, economic development, energy assistance, the arts and education. He will also continue to serve on the Southern Company Gas Management Council.

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I thanked Kim Greene again at the 2023 Stockholder Meeting. Maybe I’ll send her congratulations on her promotion.

-jsq

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