Michael Britt

Vice President, Southern Company Energy Innovation Center

Atlanta

Michael Britt is vice president of the Southern Company Energy Innovation Center, located in Atlanta’s Technology Square. Under Britt’s direction, the center focuses on developing and commer-cializing products and services that benefit customers as Southern Company extends its long-standing

commitment to inventing the future of clean, safe, reliable and affordable energy.

The Energy Innovation Center is one aspect of Southern Company’s enterprise-wide approach to innovation, which includes the advancement of new nuclear in Georgia, a first-of-its-kind clean coal facility in Mississippi and an industry-leading commitment to robust, proprietary research and development. Prior to rejoining Southern Company – where he held multiple positions during the 1990s – Britt served as partner and utilities practice leader for the southeastern U.S. with Oliver Wyman Inc., based in Atlanta. In that role, he focused on market and growth strategies, acquisition

strategy and due diligence, energy infrastructure,distributed energy, public policy, technology development and customer experience/retail strategy.

Britt holds a bachelor of arts in English from the University of Pennsylvania and graduated with honors with a masters of business administration from the University of Notre Dame.