SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

                                Washington, D.C.

                          Three year period ending 2000

                      FORM U-12(I)-B (THREE-YEAR STATEMENT)

  Statement Pursuant to Section 12(i) of Public Utility Holding Company Act of
     1935 by a Person Regularly Employed or Retained by a Registered Holding
        Company or a Subsidiary Thereof and Whose Employment Contemplates
                Only Routine Expenses as Specified in Rule 71(b)

         1. Name and business address of person filing statement.

         Gary R. Hart, Southern Company Services, Inc., 600 North 18th Street,
         Birmingham, AL 35291

         2. Names and business addresses of any persons through whom the
undersigned proposes to act in matters included within the exemption provided by
paragraph (b) of Rule U-71.



         3. Registered holding companies and subsidiary companies by which the
undersigned is regularly employed or retained.

         Southern Company; and the following subsidiaries: Southern Company
         Services, Inc.; Alabama Power Company; Georgia Power Company; Gulf
         Power Company; Mississippi Power Company; and Savannah Electric Power
         Company.

         4. Position or relationship in which the undersigned is employed or
retained by each of the companies named in item 3, and brief description of
nature of services to be rendered in each such position or relationship.

                  Manager Fuel and Allowance Planning (Procurement and
                  Administrative Agent for each of the operating companies shown
                  above)

         5. (a) Compensation received during the current year and estimated to
be received over the next two calendar years by the undersigned or others,
directly or indirectly, for services rendered by the undersigned, from each of
the companies designated in item 3. (Use column (a) as supplementary statement
only.)

                           Salary or other
                           compensations
Name of  received          to be            Person or company from whom received
recipient                  received         or to be received
           (a)      (b)
Gary R.  $223,200 $79,680 (annually)        Southern Company Services, Inc.
Hart
           (b)    Basis for compensation if other than salary.

          6. (To be answered in supplementary statement only.) Expenses incurred
by the undersigned or any person named in item 2, above, during the calendar
year in connection with the activities described in item 4, above, and the
source or sources of reimbursement for same.

           (a) Total amount of routine expenses charged to client:

           (b) Itemized list of all other expenses:

Date January 28, 1998                       (Signed) /s/  Gary R. Hart