Kemper Coal Plant — Are Commission conditions too much for Miss. Power?

by Amy McCullough

Published: April 29,2010

Tags: clean coal, energy, Entergy, Haley Barbour, Integrated Gasification Combined Cycle, Kemper County, Mississippi Power, Mississippi Public Service Commission, sierra club, Southern Company, Transport Reactor Integrated Gasification, U.S. Department of Energy

Mississippi Power Company is taking a careful look at whether to build a $2.4 billion clean coal plant in Kemper County. The Mississippi Public Service Commission voted April 29 to approve the plant - but with several conditions MPC says "seem to make it impossible" to finance or construct. Commissioners Leonard Bentz and Lynn Posey approved the ...

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