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2007 Financial Highlights
Operating revenues$15.353 billion
Net Income$1.734 billion
Earnings Per Share$2.29
Average Shares Outstanding756 million
Return on Average Common Equity14.60 percent
Total Assets$45.789 billion
  
Customers and SalesCustomersEnergy sales
(billions of kWh)
Residential3,756,000 53.3
Commercial600,00054.7
Industrial15,00054.7
Other6,0000.9
Total4,377,000204.4
Total Retail 163.6
Total Wholesale 40.8

Environmental facts

  • Investing $3.9 billion over the next three years to add additional environmental controls, which will further lower emissions of nitrogen oxides, sulfur dioxide and mercury.
  • Selected Plant Daniel in Mississippi as a test site for carbon dioxide geologic storage to learn if the technique can effectively reduce accumulations of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.
  • Opened the nation’s first mercury-controls technology research center in Florida.
  • Awarded 93 biodiversity and habitat improvement grants from 2003-2007 through the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation and other partners.

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Our Reality

"Keeping the lights on for 4.3 million customers. Delivering value to more than 600,000 investors. Making sure our 26,000 employees are equipped with the skills and knowledge they need to get the job done safely."

David M. Ratcliffe, CEO