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SEPTEMBER • Alabama Power ranked No. 1 overall in the Southern Company 2014 Customer Value Benchmark survey, which ranks Southern Company, its four operating companies and 16 peer companies based on customer interviews and data. The overall score and ranking is based on a straight average of the scores for each company on the Residential, General Business and Large Business customer segments. • Leading economic development publication Site Selection recognized Alabama Power among its top 10 utilities in economic development for the company's "innovative new approaches to partnering with both companies and communities," among other accolades. Alabama Power has been in the top 10 nationally six of the past seven years. • Since 2011, Alabama Power has annually stocked about 25,000 "catchable size" rainbow trout into the waters of the Sipsey Fork of the Black Warrior River below Lewis Smith Dam. The company has built seven metal staircases and walkways for better access to the area, which is one of only two waterways east of the Mississippi that offers trout fishing. OCTOBER • The Alabama Power Service Organization celebrated the Foundation's 25th anniversary with "25 Days of Service," a statewide series of special projects. Created in 1989 with a donation by Alabama Power shareholders, the foundation has invested $150 million to support Alabama communities and nonprofits, with a focus on improving education, health and human services, arts and culture, the environment and quality of life. The foundation supports more than 700 organizations annually. • Nearly 10,000 middle school students filled the Mobile Civic Center for the Worlds of Opportunity Career Expo sponsored by Alabama Power and co-founded by a former employee. • The Alabama Control Center celebrated a century of service during an event at Corporate Headquarters attended by many current and former employees. The ACC began modestly when lines were connected from Lay Dam and Gadsden Steam Plant to a Birmingham substation in 1914. Today it is a state-of-the-art facility monitoring electrical loads and the health of the entire Alabama Power system around the clock. NOVEMBER • A $75,000 Alabama Power Foundation grant will ensure the continuing upkeep of Tuscaloosa's Veterans Memorial Park. Alabama Power employees (including many veterans) joined with veterans groups and elected officials to present the check to the Tuscaloosa Park & Recreation Foundation. The park was dedicated in 1978 on a 1-acre site on McFarland Boulevard. • More than 350 Mobile and Baldwin County students attended performances of the Mobile Symphony Orchestra in 2014 through the Big Red Ticket sponsored by Alabama Power. The program founded in 2007 provides free tickets to students in K-12 for classical performances. • Alabama Power biologists worked with their counterparts from state and federal agencies to search for endangered mussels and fish in Big Canoe Creek in St. Clair County. The collection, measurement and recording of the endangered Southern clubshell, triangular kidney shell mussels and endangered fish will help preserve the species, said officials of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. DECEMBER • The Target Zero campaign was celebrated for a decade of success during which the safety culture at Alabama Power became a top priority of every employee. Recordable injuries dropped by a third during the first year and by 2013 had fallen by more than two-thirds the level when Target Zero was initiated in 2004. • Employees across the state volunteered thousands of hours and raised tens of thousands of dollars to purchase Christmas gifts and deliver them to needy children and adults across Alabama. Many of the holiday projects are the culmination of year-round fundraising efforts that provide deserving families with food, clothing and utility assistance. • After Alabama Power raised a bypass spillway gate, a continuous stream of water flowed through the 20-mile former course of the Coosa River below Weiss Dam for the first time in 50 years. The new flow will help restore endangered aquatic life while improving conditions for fishing, canoeing and kayaking. 5 YEAR IN REVIEW Media gathered along the Lewis Smith Dam tailrace to see thousands of trout released into the Sipsey Fork of the Black Warrior River.

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