Mississippi Power customers may pay for plant upgrade
by Associated Press
Published: January 27,2011
Tags: coal, electricity, energy, environment, Mississippi Power Company, natural gas, Plant Daniel, utilities
See related Mississippi Business Blog post by reporter Amy McCullough.
JACKSON COUNTY — Mississippi Power Company has told state utility regulators that it expects customers’ bills to rise 3.5 percent over five years as it works to bring Plant Daniel in Jackson County up to new environmental rules.
The Mississippi Press reports that Gulfport-based Mississippi Power officials outlined the $625-million project for members of the state Public Service Commission at a hearing this week in Jackson.
Mississippi Power and Gulf Power, both Southern Co. subsidiaries, jointly own the plant.
Project manager David Schmidt said each company would spend about $312 million.
Mississippi Power spokesman Verdell Hawkins said the company hopes to get PSC approval to proceed by Feb. 28.
Hawkins said work to bring Plant Daniel into compliance with the Clean Air Act should be completed by 2015.
“We’ve been trying to hold off on these expenditures as long as we could so they wouldn’t be a burden to the customers of Mississippi Power Company,” said Mississippi Power attorney Ben Stone. “But we can’t hold off any longer.”
The Plant Daniel project is one of many nationwide and several for Mississippi Power. The company broke ground last month on a $2.4-billion plant in Kemper County that will convert lignite into electricity.
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January 27th, 2011 at 5:42 pm
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March 7th, 2011 at 11:07 am
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