After 32 years of service to Southern Co., Joseph “Buzz” Miller, chairman, president and CEO of Southern Power, has announced his retirement, effective April 1.
Mark Lantrip, Southern Company Services chairman, president and CEO, will serve as interim chairman, president and CEO of Southern Power until a permanent replacement is chosen.
Miller began his Southern Co. career with Alabama Power in 1986. After a series of roles of increasing responsibility, he was assigned to Washington, D.C., in 1993 as federal affairs manager. In 1998, he served as assistant to Southern Co., chairman, president and CEO, Bill Dahlberg. In 1999, Miller returned to Washington as vice president of governmental relations. In 2006, Miller was asked to lead the development of Plant Vogtle units 3 and 4, the first new nuclear units to be built in the United States in more than 30 years.
Miller assumed his role at Southern Power in February 2016.
A 1983 graduate of Auburn University, Miller is a 2015 inductee into the state of Alabama Engineering Hall of Fame, and a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology reactor technology course for utility executives. He also serves as a member of the Engineering Alumni Council at Auburn University.
