Alabama Power Company

Infobox_Company | company_name = Alabama Power Company
company_
company_type = Public (nyse|ALF)
company_slogan = Always On
foundation = 1906
location = Birmingham, Alabama, USA
key_people = Charles D. McCrary, Chief Executive Officer and President
Arthur P. Beattie, Chief Financial Officer
industry = Electric Utility
products = Electricity
revenue = profit$5.36 billion USD (2007)
num_employees = 6,796 (2006)
homepage = [http://www.alabamapower.com/ http://www.alabamapower.com/]

Alabama Power Company (nyse|ALF), headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama, is a company in the southern United States that provides electricity service to 1.3 million homes, businesses, and industries in the southern two-thirds of Alabama. It is one of four U.S. utilities operated by the Southern Company, one of the nation's largest generators of electricity.

Alabama Power is an investor-owned, tax-paying utility, and the second largest subsidiary of Southern Company. More than 78,000 miles of power lines carry electricity to customers throughout 44,500 square miles.

Alabama Power's hydroelectric generating plants encompass several lakes on the Tallapoosa, Coosa, and Black Warrior Rivers, as well as coal, oil, natural gas, nuclear and cogeneration plants in various parts of the state. In addition to generating electricity, the waters surrounding the plants offer recreational opportunities for Alabama residents and visitors.

Corporate Citizenship

The Alabama Power Foundation is a non-profit foundation providing grants for watershed, environmental and community projects along the Coosa River and within the state of Alabama [ [http://www.southerncompany.com/alpower/foundation/home.asp Alabama Power Foundation Website]

In April 2006, Alabama Power and Southern Company were given the "Outstanding Stewardship of American Rivers Award" by the National Hydropower Association for their "Renew Our Rivers" program. [ [http://outstandingrivers.org.bluenile.doceus.com/rivers/waterways_throughout_the_southern_company_territory/| National Hydro Power Association] ]

Environmental Litigation

In 1999 the United States Environmental Protection Agency commenced an enforcement action against Alabama Power under the Clean Air Act. In 2006, the EPA announced that Alabama Power had agreed to spend more than $200m to upgrade pollution controls as a partial settlement of this action. [ [http://yosemite.epa.gov/opa/admpress.nsf/198a007cc57e64d3852570210055f3f6/9800b064764883568525715b005ac17b!OpenDocument Alabama Power Company to Spend More Than $200 Million Under Clean Air Act Settlement] ] The settlement did not include claims regarding five coal fired plants. [ [http://www.epa.gov/compliance/resources/decrees/civil/caa/alabamapower-cd.pdf Partial Consent Decree] , United States District Court Northern District of Alabama Southern Division] Those claims proceeded to trial, and Alabama Power prevailed. However, the Southern Environmental Law Center (SELC) has stated that they intend to appeal the ruling. SELC was involved in a case against Duke Energy that was appealed to the Supreme Court in 2006. [ [http://www.southernenvironment.com/cases/duke_alabama/alabamacasepage.htm Legal Action Against Alabama Power ] ] [ [http://www.southernenvironment.com/cases/duke_alabama/casepage.htm Legal Actions Against Duke Energy and Alabama Power] ]

Power Generating Facilities

Fossil Fuel Plants

Cogeneration Plants

Central Business District Steam Plant

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External links

* [http://www.alabamapower.com/ http://www.alabamapower.com/]
* [http://www.southerncompany.com/ http://www.southerncompany.com/]
* [http://www.encyclopediaofalabama.org/face/Article.jsp?id=h-1524 Alabama Power Company] in the [http://www.encyclopediaofalabama.org/face/Home.jsp Encyclopedia of Alabama]

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