Which is it?
by Amy McCullough
Published: November 23,2009
Tags: coal, gas, Kemper County, MS Power Company, Southern Company
Mississippi Power wants to use coal while other energy providers move to gas Mississippi Power Company wants to build a $2.2-billion lignite coal plant in Kemper County to fill an energy generation need because a dependence on pricey, volatile natural gas would be too expensive for rate payers. Yet the chief financial officer of [...]
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