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Independent monitor: Kemper contingency 91 percent gone

by Clay Chandler Published: May 4,2012

Tags: Alabama Power, Mississippi Power Company, Mississippi Public Service Commission, sierra club, Southern Company, URS

Included in the April 24 order granting a new certificate of public convenience and necessity for Mississippi Power Co.’s Kemper County coal plant was a portion of the March report from the project’s independent monitors. The report, which monitors file monthly, said that 91 percent of the company’s contingency has been allocated, with the project [...] [...]

(UPDATED) PSC wants proposals from MPC, Sierra Club on Kemper plant

>> 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 [...] [...]

Wilson elected to EVP for Georgia Power

by MBJ Staff Published: December 4,2011

Tags: Anthony Wilson, Georgia Power, Mississippi State University, Oxford University Advanced Management Program, Southern Company, University of Southern Mississippi

Anthony Wilson has been elected executive vice president, customer service and operations (CSO), of Georgia Power, effective Jan. 1, 2012. Wilson, 47, currently serves as vice president of transmission. He will replace Mickey Brown, who will retire at the end of the year. Since joining Southern Company in 1984 at Mississippi Power, Wilson has held [...] [...]

Kemper Co. Welcomes MPC Plant Site

by Stephen McDill Published: December 17,2010

Tags: Anthony Topazi, clean coal, Haley Barbour, Kemper County, Mississippi Power, Southern Company

KEMPER COUNTY- The 582-megawatt electric plant will use Mississippi lignite in an integrated gasification combine cycle (IGCC) to produce electricity for Mississippi Power customers. [...]

Topazi named COO of Southern Company

by Associated Press Published: July 27,2010

Tags: Anthony Topazi, David M. Ratcliffe, Edward Day VI, Mississippi Power, Southern Company, Southern Company Generation, Southern Company Transmission, Southern Power, Thomas A. Fanning

GULFPORT — Mississippi Power president and CEO Anthony Topazi has been named executive vice president and chief operating officer of Southern Company. It’s one of several new executive appointments in a management transition plan at Southern Company. Topazi will have responsibility for Southern Company Generation, Southern Power and Southern Company Transmission. Edward Day VI will [...] [...]

Breaking: PSC eases Kemper restrictions

See related video. Today the Mississippi Public Service Commission passed another conditional approval of Mississippi Power Company’s $2.4 billion Kemper County clean coal plant, relaxing the financial restrictions imposed in its April order. (Read order.) The Commission raised the plant cost cap from $2.4 billion to $2.88 billion. The Commission also agreed to allow the [...] [...]

Commissioners: Law allowing utility to hide rate impact unfair

Two out of the three Mississippi Public Service Commissioners think a law that has allowed Mississippi Power Company to hide the rate impacts of its proposed $2.4 billion power plant is wrong. By law, a utility is allowed to file with the Commission any information it wants to keep confidential. To uncover the information, a [...] [...]

Mississippi Power’s Kemper decision deadline extended

The Mississippi Public Service Commission voted last week to give Mississippi Power Company an extension on its deadline to accept the Commission’s conditions for the proposed $2.4 billion Kemper County clean coal plant. Public Service Commissioners Leonard Bentz, Lynn Posey and Brandon Presley voted unanimously to extend the deadline to May 26. The Commission’s April [...] [...]

Bentz: The whole Kemper story is not getting told

For better or worse, the economic future for the next 40 years in southeastern Mississippi will be greatly impacted by the decision of Public Service Commissioner Leonard Bentz. Bentz is one of three members of the state Public Service Commission, which voted April 29 to conditionally approve Mississippi Power Company’s (MPC’s) $2.4-billion Kemper County clean [...] [...]

Kemper Update: Mississippi Power files for rehearing

Mississippi Power Company has asked the state Public Service Commission for a rehearing regarding its proposed $2.4 billion Kemper County clean coal plant. The Commission gave conditional approval of the plant on April 29. The Commission said the project was too risky for ratepayers, but MPC could get the green light for Kemper by submitting [...] [...]

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