Southern Company has just released a “net zero” document, that clearly will get the company nowhere near net zero, but it may get CEO Tom Fanning to retirement age, after which he clearly doesn’t care. Southern Company, as the name suggest, runs a lot of utilities in the South of the US, including Alabama Power, Georgia Power, Mississippi Power, PowerSecure, Southern Nuclear, Southern Power, Southern Linc Natural Gas Utilities, Atlanta Gas Light, Chattanooga Gas, Nicor Gas and Virginia Natural Gas. Guess what? The plan is all about gas. While the document makes it clear that without gas, Fanning does not believe that his company can offer a stable, resilient supply of electricity, his main argument is an economic one –…