EX-24.B 20 x24b-10k2016.htm EXHIBIT 24.B Exhibit

Exhibit 24(b)
Mark A. Crosswhite
Chairman, President and
Chief Executive Officer
600 North 18th Street
Post Office Box 2641
Birmingham, Alabama 35291-0001

 
 
Tel 205.257.1000
Fax 205.257.5100
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January 27, 2017



Art P. Beattie
30 Ivan Allen Jr. Blvd., N.W.
Atlanta, Georgia 30308
 
Melissa K. Caen
30 Ivan Allen Jr. Blvd., N.W.
Atlanta, Georgia 30308


Dear Mr. Beattie 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, 2016 and (2) the Company’s Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q during 2017.

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/Mark A. Crosswhite
 
 
Mark A. Crosswhite
Chairman, President and Chief Executive
Officer








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/s/Whit Armstrong
Whit Armstrong




/s/Robert D. Powers
Robert D. Powers




/s/David J. Cooper, Sr.
David J. Cooper, Sr.




/s/Catherine J. Randall
Catherine J. Randall




/s/Mark A. Crosswhite
Mark A. Crosswhite




/s/C. Dowd Ritter
C. Dowd Ritter




/s/O. B. Grayson Hall, Jr.
O. B. Grayson Hall, Jr.




/s/R. Mitchell Shackleford III
R. Mitchell Shackleford III




/s/Anthony A. Joseph
Anthony A. Joseph




/s/Philip C. Raymond
Philip C. Raymond




/s/Patricia M. King
Patricia M. King




/s/Anita Allcorn-Walker
Anita Allcorn-Walker




/s/James K. Lowder
James K. Lowder

 





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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, 2016 and its 2017 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 Art P. Beattie 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 27, 2017, 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 21, 2017
ALABAMA POWER COMPANY



 
By
/s/Melissa K. Caen
 
 
Melissa K. Caen
Assistant Secretary