This afternoon, documents were filed with the Public Service Commission after an agreement between Mississippi power and the PSC was not reached. The filing comes after an order approved unanimously by the commission at its July 6th meeting, encouraging parties…
Next Thursday, the state’s Public Service Commission is set to hear potential solutions regarding the Kemper County Power Plant. Two days ago, Mississippi Power notified the commission that it would immediately suspend the lignite coal gasification efforts at its power…
This afternoon, Mississippi Power Company notified the Mississippi Public Service Commission that it will immediately suspend lignite coal gasification operations at its Kemper County facility; the plant will continue operating as a natural gas plant. Last week, the Mississippi Public…
State regulators want to pull the plug on the Kemper County Power Plant that was supposed to burn coal more cleanly. The Public Service Commission says the Atlanta based Southern Company should absorb $6.5 billion in losses and ratepayers should…
Mississippi Power Company says it will file plans Monday for customers to pay their share of its $7.3 billion Kemper County Power Plant, even though the plant isn’t finished. The unit of Atlanta-based Southern Company did not yet have a…
Documents filed recently project Mississippi Power's Kemper County Power Plant operations and maintenance will cost one billion dollars in its first five years. That's in addition to the 6.9 billion the plant is already spending for construction. The one billion…
Mississippi Power Company says it will take at least another month to put into operation the power plant it’s building in Kemper County. Atlanta-based Southern Company, the parent of Mississippi Power, announced Monday that it is pushing back the completion…
All but $3.6 million of $377 million in rate refunds related to Mississippi Power’s Kemper County plant are back in the hands of customers. Auditors told the Mississippi Public Service Commission that the utility complied with the refund order. The…
The cost of Mississippi Power’s Kemper County power plant has risen again. This time to the tune of an additional $9 million dollars, pushing the total cost to $6.8 billion. The Atlanta-based Southern Company will absorb the increased cost. Mississippi…
A credit rating agency is cutting its grade for Mississippi Power, saying there remain “elevated risks” of financial, regulatory and construction trouble at the $6.2 Billion Kemper County Power Plant.
Yesterday, South Mississippi Electric Power Association’s board voted to pull out of a deal to buy 15% of the $6.2 billion Kemper County Power Plant.
Mississippi Power announced today that rates could increase to help pay for the Kemper Power Plant.