Certificate of Notification
                             (Third Quarter - 2004)

                                    Filed by

                              GEORGIA POWER COMPANY


Pursuant to orders of the Securities and Exchange Commission dated December 16,
2002 in the matter of File No. 70-10080 and dated June 30, 2004 in the matter of
File No. 70-10223.

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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 third quarter of 2004, GEORGIA had:

Short-term and/or term loan notes outstanding -

$0

Notes outstanding to Southern Company Funding Corporation (SCFC) for GEORGIA's
portion of SCFC's Commercial Paper program -

$0

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:       November 12, 2004                    GEORGIA POWER COMPANY



                                                  By: /s/Wayne Boston
                                                        Wayne Boston
                                                     Assistant Secretary