by Clay Chandler Published: May 20,2013
Mississippi Power Co. has made an abrupt change at the top. Southern Co.’s board of directors voted Monday to name G. Edison “Ed” Holland the utility’s new leader. Holland replaces Ed Day, who has been CEO since 2010. Day has spent a total of 30 years with Southern Co. >>READ MORE in today’s Magnolia Marketplace [...] [...]
by Clay Chandler Published: March 8,2013
Tags: energy, Kemper County Coal plant, Mississippi Power Company, Public Service Commission
Mississippi Public Service commissioners voted 2-1 last Tuesday to approve a multi-year rate plan for Mississippi Power Co.’s Kemper County coal plant. Terms of the plan call for the utility to receive $99 million in construction-work-in-progress funds for the rest of 2013. That will create a rate increase between 12 and 13 percent for residential [...] [...]
by For the MBJ Published: February 1,2013
Tags: Kemper County, lignite coal plant, Mississippi Power, Public Service Commission, public utilities, Southern Company
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 [...] [...]
by MBJ Staff Published: December 29,2012
Tags: Kemper County, Mississippi Power, Public Service Commission, public utilities
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, [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: October 24,2012
Tags: Hurricane Issac, Louisiana, Mississippi, Mississippi Business Journal, Public Service Commission
BATON ROUGE, La. — Louisiana’s utility regulatory agency is hashing out complaints over Entergy’s response to Hurricane Isaac. The Public Service Commission conducts a hearing Wednesday, as it considers whether to level any penalties against the company for a flawed response. More than 900,000 utility customers — or 43 percent of homes and businesses — [...] [...]
by Ross Reily Published: September 16,2012
Tags: Public Service Commission, Purchase Power Solutions LLC, telemarketers
Every so often, I will answer the phone, and there will be some telemarketer trying to sell me something or another. I am on the no-call list, mind you. So, I really shouldn’t be getting these calls. Everyone knows what I am talking about. You are trying to eat dinner or help kids with their [...] [...]
by MBJ Staff Published: September 14,2012
Tags: AT&T, Basel III, insurance & employee benefits, Mississippi Museum of Art, Public Service Commission, Trustmark
>> BASEL III Mississippi bankers brace for change— by Ted Carter Also in this week’s paper: >> MBJ FOCUS/LIST: Insurance & Employee Benefits >> LEGAL Supreme court sides with Department of Revenue in AT&T tax dispute— by Clay Chandler >> BANKING Trustmark, Hancock head lengthy list of state’s 5-star banks— by Ted Carter >> KEMPER UPDATE [...] [...]
by Clay Chandler Published: July 8,2012
Tags: AT&T, Brandon Presley, landlines, Public Service Commission, telecommunications
Northern District Public Service Commissioner Brandon Presley intends to challenge the constitutionality of a new law that removes the “carrier of last resort” mandate from AT&T and other layers of oversight from phone companies operating in Mississippi. House Bill 825 – known as the “AT&T Bill” — became law July 1. Before it cleared the [...] [...]
by MBJ Staff Published: June 15,2012
Tags: building codes, Digital Editions, entrepreneurial camp, Farm Bill, Ground Zero Blues Club, healthcare, hurricane-resistant structures, insurance institute, Kemper, lacking workforce, MBCI, MBJ, Millsaps, Mississippi Business Journal, nurses, PSC, Public Service Commission, RNs, Rob Murray
>> INSURANCE INSTITUTE: Lack of codes makes Mississippi Coast … MOST VULNERABLE — By Ted Carter Also in this week’s paper: >> LAST AGAIN: Insurance Institute gives state nation’s lowest grade for hurricane-resistant structures — by Ted Carter >> REPORT: 70,000 coastal properties at risk to storm — by Ted Carter >> AGRICULTURE: Southern senators: [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: March 28,2012
Tags: Anthony Topazi, Barbour, BGR Group, Bloomberg News, Brandon Presley, Clean Coal Power Initiative, coal, construction, Construction Work in Progress, CWIP, electricity, environment, Florida, Gov. Haley Barbour, Griffith & Rogers Inc., Interpublic Group of Companies Inc., Kemper County clean coal plant, Kemper County clean coal project, Kemper County Coal plant, Leonard Bentz, Lynn Posey, Mississippi Business Journal, Mississippi Power Company, Mississippi State Ethics Commission, Orlando Gasification Project, power, power generation, Power plant, Public Service Commission, Southern Company, state agency, The New Republic, Todd Terrell, U.S. Department of Energy, utilities
>> SEE UPDATE AS OF THURSDAY MORNING …. KEMPER COUNTY — State utility regulators have asked Mississippi Power Co. and the Sierra Club to submit proposals on how to proceed with the Kemper County coal-fired power plant. The Mississippi Supreme Court ruled March 15 that the Public Service Commission failed to lay out its reasoning [...] [...]
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