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
Kemper cost approaches $5 billion with latest rise
JACKSON — Mississippi Power Co. says the expected cost of the power plant it’s building in Kemper County has risen another $150 million because of
PSC: Miss. Power should justify Kemper coal plant spending
JACKSON — Regulators say Mississippi Power Co. needs to submit more evidence that it has spent money prudently on the power plant it’s building in
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.
Kemper delay could force repayment of $133 million
JACKSON — If Mississippi Power Co. misses a May deadline to complete construction of a $4.3 billion power plant in Kemper County, it will be
Groups spar over use of money in Kemper power plant fight
JACKSON — A free-market advocacy group that opposes Mississippi Power’s $4.7 billion coal-fired power plant under construction in Kemper County now finds itself on the
Bentz defends Kemper as he prepares to leave PSC
JACKSON — Public Service Commissioner Leonard Bentz hasn’t set a date to resign and become executive director of the South Mississippi Planning and Development District.
Wyatt Emmerich: Time for Southern Company — not taxpayers — to pay Kemper’s bill
With southeast Mississippians paying 66 percent more for electricity and Southern Company writing off a billion dollars in losses, it’s reasonable to conclude the Kemper lignite plant is not working out well.
PSC says Kemper plant rate cap to stand
JACKSON — Southern District Public Service Commissioner Leonard Bentz says he won’t vote to raise the $2.4 billion cap set by regulators for the Southern
Southern Co. taking $450M charge for Miss. plant
ATLANTA — Southern Co. shareholders will absorb $450 million in losses incurred while building a new coal-fired power plant in Mississippi, raising the total write-offs