Certificate of Notification
                             (Second Quarter - 2001)

                                    Filed by

                              GEORGIA POWER COMPANY


Pursuant to orders of the Securities and Exchange Commission dated March 13,
1996 in the matter of File No. 70-8795 and dated November 8, 2000 in the matter
of File No. 70-9631.

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Georgia Power Company (GEORGIA) hereby certifies to said Commission, pursuant to
Rule 24, that, in accordance with the terms and conditions of and for the
purposes represented by the statements on Form U-1 in the above matters at the
end of the second quarter of 2001, GEORGIA had:

Short-term and/or term loan notes outstanding - $86;250,000

Notes outstanding to Southern Company Funding Corporation (SCFC) for GEORGIA's
portion of SCFC's Commercial Paper program - $711,157,426.88; and

Non-negotiable promissory notes to public entities in exchange for the proceeds
of their revenue anticipation notes - $0


                                    SIGNATURE

Pursuant to the requirements of the Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935,
the undersigned company has duly caused this certificate to be signed on its
behalf by the undersigned thereunto duly authorized.


Dated:       August 7, 2001             GEORGIA POWER COMPANY



                                        By:  /s/Wayne Boston
                                              Wayne Boston
                                          Assistant Secretary