Site Selection Services

Alabama Power offers at no cost a unique range of site selection services that positively impact the process. From detail engineering site evaluation to power quality compliance for electrical loads to address voltage fluctuations and harmonics, our economic development team is prepared to meet your site selection needs.

For over 100 years, Alabama Power has leveraged its in-depth experience in development to help businesses and industries, all over the world, prosper in Alabama.

Our Commitment to Service

Our team focuses on providing world-class client service with the intent to save you time and money during the site evaluation and selection phase while providing the local knowledge and data necessary to make the best comparison and ultimate business decision. A few of the services we provide:

Preliminary Site and Community Identification

Our resources allow us to prepare unparalleled community/labor and site profiles and supporting mapping and imagery products based on your site assessment criteria and specifications.

Detailed Community/Site Verification

Our environmental, engineering and GIS teams enable us to provide you with topographic, geotechnical surveys and analysis to include Phase I Environmental and all natural disaster planning such as floodplain mapping and other storm data.

Detailed Labor Force Analysis

We provide detailed demographic analysis, wage rate comparisons and a complete evaluation of the local educational environment to include current educational attainment, two-and four- year colleges, and technical school programs.

Electric Power Analysis

We have a keen understanding of the industrial processes peculiar to individual manufacturing facilities through our work with all businesses and industries in Alabama. We apply this knowledge to estimate your average energy costs and recommend the lowest rate. We can calculate electric loads sensitive to your particular voltage fluctuations and harmonics that will provide maximum quality, consistency and reliability.

Detailed State and Local Incentive Evaluation

The legal ability for localities participating in projects varies from county to county, creating some confusion for local officials and clients. We recently researched every constitutional amendment and law impacting finance structures in Alabama. Now our team can assemble profiles and comparisons of state, county and city tax regimes and calculate the resulting tax burden. Similarly, we will prepare impact analysis studies of statutory incentive programs tailored to your project. Ultimately, we can make sure the communities know their legal ability to impact a project and ensure what has been committed can be delivered.

Transportation, Logistics and Supplier Analysis

We have an internal team that conducts inbound and outbound transportation and logistics studies and, working in conjunction with our GIS department, we can prepare studies integrating transportation and logistics variables with known supplier data.

Site Visualizations

Our GIS group can provide visualizations of your facility in a variety of configurations and on multiple sites. By adding existing or planned infrastructure improvements, we can help you visualize and compare your site options.

Call us at 1-800-718-2726 or send us an e-mail today to start learn more about amazing Alabama.