UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D. C. 20549
FORM 8-K
CURRENT REPORT
Pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934
Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported) January 10, 2012
Commission File Number | Registrant, State of Incorporation, Address and Telephone Number | I.R.S. Employer Identification No. |
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| 1-3164 | Alabama Power Company (An Alabama Corporation) 600 North 18th Street Birmingham, Alabama 35203 (205) 257-1000 | 63-0004250 |
The name and address of the registrant have not changed since the last report.
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Item 8.01. Other Events.
On January 10, 2012, Alabama Power Company (the “Company”) entered into an Underwriting Agreement covering the issue and sale by the Company of $250,000,000 aggregate principal amount of its Series 2012A 4.10% Senior Notes due January 15, 2042 (the “Senior Notes”). The Senior Notes were registered under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, pursuant to the shelf registration statement (Registration No. 333-172528) of the Company.
| | Item 9.01. | Financial Statements and Exhibits. |
| (c) Exhibits. |
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| 1.1 | Underwriting Agreement, dated January 10, 2012, relating to the Senior Notes among the Company and Citigroup Global Markets Inc., Goldman, Sachs & Co. and Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC, as representatives of the several Underwriters named in Schedule I to the Underwriting Agreement. |
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| 4.2 | Forty-Eighth Supplemental Indenture to Senior Note Indenture dated as of January 18, 2012, providing for the issuance of the Senior Notes. |
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| 4.7 | Form of Series Senior Note (included in Exhibit 4.2 above). |
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| 5.1 | Opinion of Balch & Bingham LLP relating to the Senior Notes. |
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| 12.1 | Computation of ratio of earnings to fixed charges. (Designated in Form 10-Q for the quarter ended September 30, 2011, File No. 1-3164 as Exhibit 12(b)1.) |
SIGNATURE
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.
| Date: January 18, 2012 | ALABAMA POWER COMPANY |
| | By _/s/Melissa K. Caen_________________________________ Melissa K. Caen Assistant Secretary |
