Exhibit 24(b)1

600 North 18th Street
Post Office Box 2641
Birmingham, Alabama 35291-0001
Tel   205 257 1000

January 26, 2024

Daniel S. Tucker	Melissa K. Caen
30 Ivan Allen Jr. Blvd., N.W.	30 Ivan Allen Jr. Blvd., N.W.
Atlanta, Georgia 30308	Atlanta, Georgia 30308

Dear Mr. Tucker and Ms. Caen:

Alabama Power Company (the “Company”) proposes to file or join in the filing of reports under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, with the Securities and Exchange Commission with respect to the following: (1) the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2023 and (2) the Company’s Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q during 2024.

The Company and the undersigned directors and officers of the Company, individually as a director and/or as an officer of the Company, hereby make, constitute and appoint each of you our true and lawful Attorney for each of us and in each of our names, places and steads to sign and cause to be filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission in connection with the foregoing said Annual Report on Form 10-K, said Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q and any necessary or appropriate amendment or amendments to any such reports, to be accompanied in each case by any necessary or appropriate exhibits or schedules thereto.

Yours very truly,
ALABAMA POWER COMPANY
By	/s/J. Jeffrey Peoples
	J. Jeffrey Peoples Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer

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/s/Angus R. Cooper, III	/s/Kevin B. Savoy
Angus R. Cooper, III	Kevin B. Savoy
/s/O. B. Grayson Hall, Jr.	/s/R. Mitchell Shackleford, III
O. B. Grayson Hall, Jr.	R. Mitchell Shackleford, III
/s/Anthony A. Joseph	/s/Charisse D. Stokes
Anthony A. Joseph	Charisse D. Stokes
/s/Barbara J. Knight	/s/Phillip M. Webb
Barbara J. Knight	Phillip M. Webb
/s/J. Jeffrey Peoples	/s/Moses H. Feagin
J. Jeffrey Peoples	Moses H. Feagin
/s/Catherine J. Randall	/s/Anita Allcorn-Walker
Catherine J. Randall	Anita Allcorn-Walker

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Extract from minutes of meeting of the board of directors of Alabama Power Company.

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RESOLVED: That for the purpose of signing the reports under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 to be filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission with respect to the filing of this Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2023 and its 2024 Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q, and any necessary or appropriate amendment or amendments to any such reports, this Company, the members of its board of directors and its officers are authorized to give their several powers of attorney to Daniel S. Tucker and Melissa K. Caen.

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The undersigned officer of Alabama Power Company does hereby certify that the foregoing is a true and correct copy of a resolution duly and regularly adopted at a meeting of the board of directors of Alabama Power Company, duly held on January 26, 2024, at which a quorum was in attendance and voting throughout, and that said resolution has not since been rescinded but is still in full force and effect.

Dated: February 14, 2024	ALABAMA POWER COMPANY
	By	/s/Melissa K. Caen
		Melissa K. Caen Assistant Secretary