EX-24.D 16 x24d-10k2015.htm EXHIBIT 24.D Exhibit


Exhibit 24(d)
One Energy Place
Pensacola, FL 32520

Tel 850-444-6111
 



October 19, 2015


Mr. Art P. Beattie
The Southern Company
30 Ivan Allen Jr. Blvd., NW
Atlanta, GA 30308
Ms. Melissa K. Caen
Southern Company Services, Inc.
30 Ivan Allen Jr. Blvd., NW
Atlanta, GA 30308


Dear Mr. Beattie and Ms. Caen:


Gulf 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, 2015 and (2) the Company’s Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q during 2016.

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,


GULF POWER COMPANY


By
/s/S. W. Connally, Jr.
 
S. W. Connally, Jr.
Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer







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/s/Allan G. Bense
Allan G. Bense

/s/J. Mort O’Sullivan, III
J. Mort O’Sullivan, III

/s/Deborah H. Calder
Deborah H. Calder


/s/Michael T. Rehwinkel
Michael T. Rehwinkel


/s/S. W. Connally, Jr.
S. W. Connally, Jr.


/s/Winston E. Scott
Winston E. Scott


/s/William C. Cramer, Jr.
William C. Cramer, Jr.


/s/Xia Liu
Xia Liu


/s/Julian B. MacQueen
Julian B. MacQueen


/s/Janet J. Hodnett
Janet J. Hodnett


 
/s/Susan D. Ritenour
Susan D. Ritenour






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

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RESOLVED, That for the purpose of signing the reports under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, to be filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission with respect to the filing of the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2015 and its 2016 Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q, and any necessary or appropriate amendment or amendments to any such reports, the Company, the members of its board of directors and its officers are authorized to give their several powers of attorney to Art P. Beattie and Melissa K. Caen.

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The undersigned officer of Gulf 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 Gulf Power Company, duly held on October 19, 2015, 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 26, 2016
GULF POWER COMPANY
 
By
/s/Melissa K. Caen
 
 
Melissa K. Caen
Assistant Secretary