Alabama Power is one of the two US state deployment locations announced in the March 20, 2026 US-Japan $40 billion BWRX-300 partnership. Alabama's energy-intensive industrial base — steel, chemicals, aerospace — makes it a natural SMR market. Alabama Power is a subsidiary of Southern Company, one of the largest US utilities. The deployment is part of the broader $550 billion bilateral US-Japan investment framework agreed under the Trump-Takaichi trade pact.