Kemper power plant overruns climb another $25M
Mississippi Power Co. said Tuesday it will spend at least another $25 million to finish the power plant it’s building in Kemper County, pushing total costs to nearly $6.3 billion.
Kemper opponent: Not so fast on Mississippi Power rate hikes
Regulators should block rate increases for Mississippi Power Co.’s Kemper County plant until all the mandates of a state Supreme Court decision are fulfilled, Hattiesburg oilman Tommy Blanton says.
Miss. Power files rate plans to pay for Kemper plant
Mississippi Power Co. filed three proposals Friday with the Public Service Commission seeking higher rates to pay for the $6.2 billion power plant that it’s building in Kemper County.
Miss. Power notes new Kemper overrun amid uncertainty
Southern Co. announced Tuesday that it projects at least another $26 million in spending to complete its construction of a power plant in eastern Mississippi.
Costs rise by another $496 million at Kemper plant
Southern Co. says it will cost at least another $496 million to finish the power plant it’s building in eastern Mississippi’s Kemper County.
Again, costs rise and completion delayed at Kemper plant
Southern Co. said Thursday that it will cost at least another $59 million to finish the power plant it’s building in eastern Mississippi’s Kemper County, pushing the total cost above $5.6 billion
Costs rise by another $30M at Kemper
Southern Co. says it will cost at least another $30 million to finish the power plant it’s building in eastern Mississippi’s Kemper County, pushing the total cost to nearly $5.6 billion.
Hearing again delayed on Kemper costs
The Mississippi Public Service Commission on Tuesday delayed hearings on whether Mississippi Power Co. has spent prudently in building the $5.5 billion Kemper County power plant.
Kemper plant drags down Southern Co. stock
Troubles at the Kemper County power plant that Mississippi Power Co. is building are so great that they’re dragging down the stock of parent Southern Co.
Kemper power plant will cost more
The Southern Companies says the expected startup date of its coal gas-fired power plant in Kemper County is being pushed back to the first half of 2015.
Hearing delayed on Mississippi Power Kemper plant costs
Upcoming hearings on whether Mississippi Power Co. should be able to get customers to pay for its Kemper County power plant have been postponed.
Southern Co. agrees to coal research with Chinese firm
Southern Co. says it has signed a deal with a state-owned Chinese coal and energy company to work together to develop coal technologies, based in part on the coal gasification and carbon capture technology that Southern subsidiary Mississippi Power Co. is deploying at the $5 billion Kemper County power plant.
Costs rise another $177 million at Kemper plant
The Southern Co. says it will cost at least another $177 million to finish the power plant it’s building in eastern Mississippi’s Kemper County, pushing the total cost above $5.2 billion.
Kemper costs rise $40 million on start-up reserve
JACKSON — The Southern Co. says it may cost another $40 million to finish the $5 billion-plus power plant and mine it’s building in eastern
To clean up coal, Obama pushes more oil production
America’s newest, most expensive coal-fired power plant is hailed as one of the cleanest on the planet, thanks to government-backed technology that removes carbon dioxide and keeps it out of the atmosphere.
But once the carbon is stripped away, it will be used to do something that is not so green at all.
It will extract oil.
DOE awards $84M for carbon-capture projects
WASHINGTON — The Energy Department said Thursday it has awarded $84 million to 18 projects across the country to help limit carbon dioxide emissions from
Mississippi voices: Kemper, the math doesn’t work
It is reasonable to declare the Kemper Integrated Gasification Combined Cycle (IGCC) project the Eighth Wonder of Mississippi. The controversial plant being built by Mississippi
Miss. Power: Kemper plant build will miss deadline
JACKSON — Mississippi Power Co. says its Kemper County power plant won’t be finished by the original May 2014 deadline, but will start service sometime
Our view: Barbour: The master in his element
He’s been gone for a while, but hardly forgotten.
Haley Barbour’s second term as governor of Mississippi ended two years ago. Old elected officials never die, of course, they just become lobbyists, which was the reason for Barbour’s visit to the Friendly City on Tuesday.
Barbour makes pitch for Kemper Plant
Much like a fast runner giving his opponent a seemingly insurmountable head start, Haley Barbour flexed his rhetorical muscles Tuesday before a joint lunch meeting of the Lowndes County Republican Women and the Columbus Rotary Club.