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…
Mississippi Power announced it has started producing syngas using lignite at the Kemper County energy facility, the most significant milestone at the plant to date. An integral aspect of the plant’s operations, syngas is created when locally mined lignite is…
July in South Mississippi is known as the dog days of summer. There are ways to keep that energy bill low even though the temperatures are high. Mississippi Power representatives urge residents to keep their thermostats around 78 degrees. If…
There are some tips that you can take to lower your power bill this summer. News 25's Katarina Luketich interviews Bill Snyder from Mississippi Power to discuss those tips. • Adjust temperature • Change air filters • Maintain systems •…
The New York Times issued an intense article directed towards the Mississippi Power Kemper plant today. The article critiqued Southern Company’s need for millions of dollars over budget to complete the plant and much, much more. News 25’s Shelby Myers…
A company is suing Mississippi Power, alleging the utility misled it into building a one million dollar pipeline. Treetop Midstream Services had planned to buy carbon dioxide from the Kemper County Plant, pumping it underground to push oil up from…
Mississippi Power reported the under-construction Kemper energy plant will cost $20 million more. This is according to our media partner, the Sun Herald. The total cost now stands at $6.7 billion. Company spokesman Jeff Shepard said $19 million of the…
From Mississippi Power: As of 1:30 p.m., we have approximately 1,400 customers without electric service across our 23-county service territory. The majority of those customers are in Harrison and Jackson counties. The primary causes of the outages have been severe…
The cost of Mississippi Power’s Kemper County plant continues to rise. Officials released they will spend an addition $61 million. The Atlanta based Southern Company will absorb 35 million of the added cost. However, the remaining $26 million burden could…
Leaders at the Naval Construction Battalion Center teamed up with Mississippi Power to break ground on a 23-acre solar facility on the Gulfport base. The large scale solar facility will be able to produce four megawatts of direct current or…
Mississippi Power Company says it will spend another $142 million on its Kemper County power plant, pushing its total cost above $6.6 billion. While the unit of Atlanta-based Southern Company will absorb $110 million of the cost, customers could be…
Mississippi Power is sending crews today to North Carolina to assist Duke Energy with outages from the icy winter storm. A crew of 90 linemen and support personnel left early this morning from staging areas across the company’s service territory.
The American Red Cross is making it their mission to decrease the amount of serious injuries and deaths caused by fires by 25 percent over the next five years.
The students over at West Elementary School in Gulfport will return to school tomorrow to an all new outside learning facility thanks to Mississippi Power.
Mississippi Power customers are set to receive lower bills in February.
Mississippi Power customers are set to receive lower bills in February.
Mississippi utility regulators are approving a settlement cutting rates for consumers but paying Mississippi Power Company for part of its Kemper County power plant.
Mississippi Power customers could see a lower monthly rate on power bills as early as February of next year.
Utility regulators began a hearing to determine whether Mississippi Power Company spent prudently in the construction of the Kemper Power Plant today.
Are you mindful about turning the lights off when you leave a room or how low you keep the thermostat?
Mississippi Power announced Anthony Wilson as the new president.
It’s day two of Mississippi Power refund selections.
Good news for Mississippi Power customers.