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 11, 2006 

 

 

Commission

File Number

Registrant, State of Incorporation,

Address and Telephone Number

I.R.S. Employer

Identification No.

 

 

 

1-3164

Alabama Power Company

(An Alabama Corporation)
600 North 18th Street
Birmingham, Alabama 35291
(205) 257-1000

63-0004250

 

The address of the registrant has not changed since the last report.

 

Check the appropriate box below if the Form 8-K filing is intended to simultaneously satisfy the filing obligation of the registrant under any of the following provisions:

 

o

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o

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Item 8.01.

Other Events.

On January 11, 2006, Alabama Power Company (the “Company”) entered into an Underwriting Agreement covering the issue and sale by the Company of $200,000,000 aggregate principal amount of its Series FF 5.200% Senior Notes due January 15, 2016 (the “Series FF Senior Notes”). Said notes were registered under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, pursuant to the shelf registration statement (Registration Nos. 333-126348, 333-126348-01, 333-126348-02 and 333-126348-03) of the Company.

Item 9.01.

Financial Statements and Exhibits.

 

 

(c)

Exhibits.

 

 

1.1

Underwriting Agreement, dated January 11, 2006 relating to the Series FF Senior Notes among the Company and Citigroup Global Markets Inc., Goldman, Sachs & Co., Morgan Keegan & Company, Inc., Jackson Securities, LLC, Scotia Capital (USA) Inc. and BNY Capital Markets, Inc., as the underwriters named in Schedule I to the Underwriting Agreement.

 

 

 

 

4.2

Thirty Second Supplemental Indenture to Senior Note Indenture dated as of January 18, 2006, providing for the issuance of the Series FF Senior Notes.

 

 

 

 

4.7

Form of Series FF Senior Note (included in Exhibit 4.2 above).

 

 

 

 

5.1

Opinion of Balch & Bingham LLP relating to the Series FF Senior Notes.

 

 

 

 

12.1

Computation of ratio of earnings to fixed charges.

 

 

 

 



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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, 2006                                                ALABAMA POWER COMPANY

 

 

 

By    /s/Wayne Boston

Wayne Boston

Assistant Secretary