Mississippi Business Journal » lignite http://msbusiness.com Mississippi Business Journal Wed, 19 Jun 2013 14:34:14 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Miss. high court hears appeal on coal-fired plant http://msbusiness.com/blog/2011/12/14/miss-high-court-hears-appeal-on-coal-fired-plant/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=miss-high-court-hears-appeal-on-coal-fired-plant http://msbusiness.com/blog/2011/12/14/miss-high-court-hears-appeal-on-coal-fired-plant/#comments Wed, 14 Dec 2011 11:54:57 +0000 Associated Press http://msbusiness.com/?p=49658 The Mississippi Supreme Court is hearing oral arguments Wednesday on the Sierra Club’s challenge to a $2.9 billion power plant in Kemper County. Mississippi Power Co., a unit of Atlanta-based Southern Co., wants to build the coal-fired plant, which would be powered by lignite mined nearby. The project was approved last year by the Mississippi [...]

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]]> http://msbusiness.com/blog/2011/12/14/miss-high-court-hears-appeal-on-coal-fired-plant/feed/ 0 Day: Enough lignite in state to power plant for decades http://msbusiness.com/blog/2011/09/12/day-enough-lignite-in-state-to-power-plant-for-decades/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=day-enough-lignite-in-state-to-power-plant-for-decades http://msbusiness.com/blog/2011/09/12/day-enough-lignite-in-state-to-power-plant-for-decades/#comments Mon, 12 Sep 2011 16:41:27 +0000 Associated Press http://msbusiness.com/?p=45947 KEMPER COUNTY — Once Mississippi Power Co.’s generating plant in Kemper County comes online, it will be supported by a large — and eventually, the largest — coal mining operation in the state. Mississippi Power president/CEO Ed Day says there is enough lignite coal in East Mississippi to keep the plant running for decades. Liberty [...]

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]]> http://msbusiness.com/blog/2011/09/12/day-enough-lignite-in-state-to-power-plant-for-decades/feed/ 0 Lignite looking more like the wrong horse to have bet on http://msbusiness.com/blog/2011/06/19/lignite-looking-more-like-the-wrong-horse-to-have-bet-on/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=lignite-looking-more-like-the-wrong-horse-to-have-bet-on http://msbusiness.com/blog/2011/06/19/lignite-looking-more-like-the-wrong-horse-to-have-bet-on/#comments Sun, 19 Jun 2011 06:00:54 +0000 For the MBJ http://msbusiness.com/?p=42622 While the world has been championing natural gas as the savior of the energy crisis, Mississippi Power has insisted that gas prices will be high and volatile — reminiscent of 2009 — for years to come. The 2011 Energy Outlook from the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) projects that natural gas prices will stay around [...]

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]]> http://msbusiness.com/blog/2011/06/19/lignite-looking-more-like-the-wrong-horse-to-have-bet-on/feed/ 0 U.S. Energy Secretary Wants Kemper Approval http://msbusiness.com/blog/2010/05/07/us-energy-secretary-wants-kemper-approval/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=us-energy-secretary-wants-kemper-approval http://msbusiness.com/blog/2010/05/07/us-energy-secretary-wants-kemper-approval/#comments Fri, 07 May 2010 20:20:26 +0000 Amy McCullough http://msbusiness.com/?p=23664 The Energy Daily reports today that U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu hopes the Mississippi Public Service Commission and Southern Company can strike a compromise on a proposed $2.4 billion clean coal plant to be built in Kemper County. The Mississippi Commission voted April 29 to allow the plant to go forward if Mississippi Power Company [...]

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]]> http://msbusiness.com/blog/2010/05/07/us-energy-secretary-wants-kemper-approval/feed/ 1 Miss. Public Service Commission votes to conditionally approve $2.4 billion clean coal plant for Kemper County http://msbusiness.com/blog/2010/04/29/miss-public-service-commission-votes-to-conditionally-approve-24-billion-clean-coal-plant-for-kemper-county/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=miss-public-service-commission-votes-to-conditionally-approve-24-billion-clean-coal-plant-for-kemper-county http://msbusiness.com/blog/2010/04/29/miss-public-service-commission-votes-to-conditionally-approve-24-billion-clean-coal-plant-for-kemper-county/#comments Fri, 30 Apr 2010 02:38:38 +0000 Stephen McDill http://msbusiness.com/?p=23115 JACKSON- The future plant’s parent company, Mississippi Power, has 20 days to agree to the Commission’s conditions or risk not obtaining approval. MBJ-TV meets with the PSC to discuss their vote and the plant’s future. See full story

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]]> http://msbusiness.com/blog/2010/04/29/miss-public-service-commission-votes-to-conditionally-approve-24-billion-clean-coal-plant-for-kemper-county/feed/ 2 New plant would more than double Miss. Power’s assets http://msbusiness.com/blog/2009/12/21/new-plant-would-more-than-double-miss-power%e2%80%99s-assets/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=new-plant-would-more-than-double-miss-power%25e2%2580%2599s-assets http://msbusiness.com/blog/2009/12/21/new-plant-would-more-than-double-miss-power%e2%80%99s-assets/#comments Mon, 21 Dec 2009 06:01:01 +0000 Amy McCullough http://msbusiness.com/?p=16544 Mississippi Power Company’s Kemper County lignite coal plant is the largest proposed addition to any electric utility rate base in state history. Financing it would require customers to pre-pay some of the company’s costs through Construction Work in Progress (CWIP) in rate base, which would be a first for Mississippi. The proposed plant would more [...]

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