Exhibit 24(b)

| **Charles D. McCrary**

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

 
 

ALABAMA POWER

A SOUTHERN COMPANY 

 

 

 

 

January  23, 2009

 

 

W. Paul Bowers

Wayne Boston

30 Ivan Allen Jr. Blvd, N.W.

30 Ivan Allen Jr. Blvd, N.W.

Atlanta, Georgia  30308

Atlanta, Georgia 30308

 

Dear Sirs:

 

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, 2008, and (2) the Company’s  Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q during 2009.

 

The Company and the undersigned directors and officers of the Company, individually as a director and/or as an officer of said 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/Charles D. McCrary

Charles D. McCrary

President and Chief Executive

Officer

 

 

 

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/s/Whit Armstrong

Whit Armstrong

 

 

 

/s/Robert D. Powers

Robert D. Powers

 

 

 

/s/Ralph D. Cook

Ralph D. Cook

 

 

 

/s/David M. Ratcliffe

David M. Ratcliffe

 

 

 

/s/David J. Cooper, Sr.

David J. Cooper, Sr.

 

 

 

/s/C. Dowd Ritter

C. Dowd Ritter

 

 

 

/s/John D. Johns

John D. Johns

 

 

 

/s/James H. Sanford

James H. Sanford

 

 

 

/s/Patricia M. King

Patricia M. King

 

 

 

/s/John Cox Webb, IV

John Cox Webb, IV

 

 

 

/s/James K. Lowder

James K. Lowder

 

 

 

______________________________

James W. Wright

 

 

 

/s/Charles D. McCrary

Charles D. McCrary

 

 

 

/s/Art P. Beattie

Art P. Beattie

 

 

 

/s/Malcolm Portera

Malcolm Portera

/s/Moses H. Feagin

Moses H. Feagin

 

 

 

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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 filing the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2008, and its 2009 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 W. Paul Bowers and Wayne Boston.

 

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The undersigned officer of Alabama Power Company does hereby certify that the foregoing is a true and correct copy of resolution duly and regularly adopted at a meeting of the board of directors of Alabama Power Company, duly held on January 23, 2009, 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 25, 2009

ALABAMA POWER COMPANY

 

 

By                /s/Wayne Boston

Wayne Boston

Assistant Secretary

 

 

 

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