Allen Franklin was named Southern Co.’s COO yesterday. In thenewly-created position, Franklin will be responsible for five ofSouthern’s Southeastern subsidiaries: Alabama Power, Georgia Power,Gulf Power, Mississippi Power and Savannah Electric. He will alsobe in charge of Southern Generation, including all of the company’sregulated fossil and hydro generation. Franklin is currentlyexecutive vice president of Southern and CEO of Georgia Power. Hejoined Southern Company in 1970 and has held various executivetitles.

Darcel Hulse has assumed Sempra Energy’s newly-created positionof senior vice president, the company said Wednesday. Hulse willoversee the daily operations of Sempra Energy International, SempraEnergy Resources and Sempra Energy Utility Ventures. In hisprevious position, Hulse was president of Unocal’s Asia-Pacificventures. Before joining Sempra he had been with Unocal for 30years. Additionally, the company said Stephen L. Baum has steppeddown as chairman and acting president of Sempra EnergyInternational to concentrate full-time on his principal role withthe parent company as Sempra Energy’s vice chairman, president andCOO.

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