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(UPDATE) Storm system leaves one dead; assessments continuing

Associated Press — Thu, 11 Apr 2013 19:11:02 +0000

SHUQUALAK — Damage assessments were continuing this morning after a deadly tornado and other severe weather pounded Mississippi and other states. In Kemper County, where one person died and five were injured, Emergency Management Agency director Ben Dudley said officials hope to have a better understanding of the amount of damage later today. » Links [...]

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Read March 1 issue of MBJ

MBJ Staff — Sat, 02 Mar 2013 04:42:39 +0000

>>INGALLS TURNS 75 Building ships for the Pentagon is the economic crown jewel of the Gulf Coast- by Lisa Monti Also in this week’s paper: >> LAW Appeals court rules state’s tort cap doesn’t violate separation of powers- by Clay Chandler >>KEMPER UPDATE Mississippi Power files Kemper rate recovery plan- by Clay Chandler >>CONSTRUCTION Commercial contractors are still [...]

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Mississippi Power files Kemper rate recovery plan

Clay Chandler — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 13:24:01 +0000

A multi-year financing plan for Mississippi Power Co.’s Kemper County coal plant took two steps forward last week. Gov. Phil Bryant signed bills that would give the Mississippi Public Service Commission authority to grant the utility permission to recover costs associated with the project over a number of years. Another bill allows [...]

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Whether CWIP constitutes a tax takes up most of Kemper hearing in front of Supreme Court

Clay Chandler — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 17:30:41 +0000

Most of last Monday’s hour-long Kemper coal plant hearing at the Mississippi Supreme Court centered on two questions: If the Mississippi Public Service Commission allows Mississippi Power Co. to charge its ratepayers for the facility’s construction, will it constitute a tax, or will it simply be a rate assessment? If it is a tax, does [...]

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Kemper county energy facility — a wise decision was made

For the MBJ — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 13:15:05 +0000

The Mississippi Public Service Commission unanimously determined in 2009 that Mississippi Power would need additional baseload electric power generation to meet consumer demand in 2014. Baseload generation provides electricity that’s needed every hour of every day, 365 days a year. By 2014 with increasing demand for electricity and no additional baseload generation, Mississippi Power customers [...]

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Coal plant awaits state supreme court hearing

MBJ Staff — Sat, 29 Dec 2012 07:16:07 +0000

The past year has been an eventful one for Mississippi Power Co.’s Kemper County coal plant. In March, the Mississippi Supreme Court ruled that the 2010 order the Mississippi Public Service Commission issued that granted the plant a certificate of pubic convenience and necessity did not cite sufficient evidence from the record of proceedings. Justices, [...]

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Costs at coal plant won’t rise, union says

Clay Chandler — Mon, 24 Dec 2012 13:36:32 +0000

If Mississippi Power Co. successfully defends its Kemper County coal plant from litigation that seeks to invalidate it and the facility eventually opens, workers from two labor unions will have played a big role in getting it operational. General laborers and craftsmen are among the membership from the Central Mississippi Building and Construction Trade Council [...]

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Southern Co. to partner with Texas company to market controversial Kemper coal technology

Clay Chandler — Fri, 02 Nov 2012 06:21:22 +0000

Southern Co., the parent company of Mississippi Power Co., is partnering with a Texas based-firm that owns part of the technology that will be used at the Kemper County coal plant to market the technology to power companies worldwide. Southern Co. developed the Transport Integrated Gasification (TRIG) technology with Houston-based KBR. The process uses low-rank [...]

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Read August 13 issue of MBJ

MBJ Staff — Thu, 09 Aug 2012 19:18:34 +0000

>> CLASS CRUNCH Experts: Troublesome nursing faculty shortage to get worse— By Clay Chandler Also in this week’s paper: >> KEMPER UPDATE PSC to examine formula rate plans for Entergy, Miss. Power— by Clay Chandler >>TECHNOLOGY Google shares the ‘how-to’s’ of getting your business online— by Ted Carter >>MDA New chief cites potential in energy, medical [...]

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Kemper coal plant costs surge again

Clay Chandler — Sun, 15 Jul 2012 06:01:16 +0000

The Kemper coal plant’s Independent Monitors’ Report for the period through the end of May shows the project has crept closer to the $2.88 billion cap the Public Service Commission imposed on it. Monitors, hired by the Commission to oversee construction, now estimate that the cost to build the lignite coal-fired generation facility will reach [...]

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