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Potential Conflict of Interest Mike Cline

I own a home and live directly on the Coosa River on Lake Jordan, an Alabama Power lake. I have a vested interest in the health and popularity of the waterway I live on and its communities. I have contributed money the local and regional non-profits that promote and protect the Coosa-Tallapoosa-Alambama River watershed and its communities. Please evaluate any contributions I make for NPOV in light of the above.--Mike Cline 21:10, 8 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Power Generating Plants

I added the information of all the power generation plants owned by Alabama Power. I left it as a list but I think at some point a table with geolocation information should be added. Also maybe more information about the hydroelectric plants that includes the lakes that are created by the dams on each river. Jasgrider 05:03, 6 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Ok it has been tableized and coordinates added for each location. No lake info has been added to the hydro plants.Jasgrider 15:22, 6 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

- Jasgrider - Good job on the tables and info. Both the Coosa River and Tallapoosa River articles have the impoundment information included. The Black Warrior River article doesn't so that is something that should be added in that article. Probably a little too much for the Alabama Power article.--Mike Cline 17:23, 6 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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This has been cleared up; the information has been added to the image. Jasgrider 09:15, 26 October 2007 (CST)

Update of number of customers

DISCLOSURE: I am an employee of Alabama Power.

The first paragraph of the article states that we provide service to 1.3-million customers. Our most recent published information is 1,437,846; enough to trigger an edit.

Please reference our public background page: http://www.alabamapower.com/about/about.asp And our 2009 Fact Card (2010 should be published soon): http://www.alabamapower.com/about/pdf/factcard09.pdf

Thank you for considering the above change. Ikepigott (talk) 13:54, 24 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

General updates

Disclosure: I am a spokesman for Alabama Power.

Could we have someone update the stats regarding the company on this page? They are years out of date.

Here is a link to our externally facing company fact card: http://www.alabamapower.com/about/pdf/factcard.pdf

Total customers
Revenue
Employees

Additionally, our CFO is no longer Art Beattie -- he is Phil Raymond. http://blog.al.com/businessnews/2010/07/birminghams_alabama_power_name.html

Thank you... Ikepigott (talk) 16:25, 20 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Do you have a link to the 10-K we could use? Rklawton (talk) 16:30, 20 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Yes. Here is the most recent: http://investor.southerncompany.com/secfiling.cfm?filingID=92122-11-13&CIK=003153

Any of the Southern Company relevant filings would be found here: http://investor.southerncompany.com/sec.cfm

Unfortunately, they sometimes render in Iframes, and don't generate a discrete URL for each document.

Ikepigott (talk) 20:47, 20 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Alternative energy

Is Alabama Power Company doing anything at all with solar, wind, or other renewable sources? Big thing where I live, San_Luis_Valley#Solar_energy. User:Fred Bauder Talk 17:03, 7 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I'm an Alabama resident and I haven't read about any. Their biggest accomplishment as of late has been to finally reduce emissions at their coal burning plants, which had been amongst some of the worst offenders in the nation. Altairisfar (talk) 17:53, 7 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Biased information?

The information regarding lakes created along Alabama's rivers for the purpose of generating hydroelectricity sounds biased toward Alabama Power's public image. Specifically, the assertion that such lakes provide recreational opportunities for Alabamians sounds as if it were written by a person with vested interest in Alabama Power. I suggest it be amended or removed. --Sierkejd (talk) 11:35, 20 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Correction of logo

I have asked that the incorrect logo be removed, and replaced with one from the company media resource page.

I am a spokesman for Alabama Power.

http://www.southerncompany.com/about-us/marketing-library/home.cshtml http://www.southerncompany.com/about-us/marketing-library/img/logos/large/apc300.jpg

Ikepigott (talk) 16:23, 28 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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RE: Individuals Associated with Alabama Power

It would appear that numerous individuals employed by Alabama Power are involved, however tangentially, with the continued editing of this page. While their admissions of affiliation are commendable and ought to be respected, this affiliation remains problematic. Future editors should note that statements from individuals affiliated with Alabama power should not be taken as primary sources. For more information, please see Wikipedia:Neutral_point_of_view#Selecting_sources

Atomic putty? Rien! (talk) (talk) 17:45, 17 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]