Kemper coal plant costs surge again
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....
View ArticleMississippi Power appeals rate hike denial
A few hours after a second overrun for its Kemper County coal plant was revealed, Mississippi Power Co. said last week it was appealing the Public Service Commission’s denial of a rate increase the...
View ArticleSupreme Court denies Miss. Power’s rate increase (Updated with clarification)
Mississippi Power is now 0-2 when it comes to collecting money to pay for its Kemper County coal plant. The Mississippi Public Service Commission in June denied a 13 percent rate increase that would...
View ArticleBREAKING NEWS: Second agency cuts Mississippi Power Co.’s credit rating
JACKSON — Another credit rating agency has downgraded its view of Mississippi Power Co. Two of the three major agencies have now cut ratings after the Mississippi Public Service Commission denied...
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View ArticleContractors dispute claim of shoddy work at Kemper
Since late March, the projected cost of Mississippi Power Co.’s Kemper County coal plant has gone from $2.4 billion to $2.8 billion. The latest figure is the cap the Mississippi Public Service...
View ArticleSouthern Co. to partner with Texas company to market controversial Kemper...
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...
View ArticleKemper rate mitigation bill similar to 2009 Georgia law
Four years ago, lawmakers in Georgia’s General Assembly approved a bill designed to lessen the rate shock for Georgia Power Co. customers related to the utility’s construction of nuclear power units....
View ArticleKemper county energy facility — a wise decision was made
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...
View ArticleWhether CWIP constitutes a tax takes up most of Kemper hearing in front of...
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...
View ArticleIhrig elevated to VP of corporate communications at Southern Co.
ATLANTA — Southern Company has made two changes to the company’s executive management team. Bryan D. Anderson, vice president of governmental affairs for Southern Company, has been elevated to senior...
View ArticleKemper power plant overruns climb another $45 million
JACKSON — Southern Co. said it will spend at least another $45 million to finish the power plant it’s building in eastern Mississippi’s Kemper County, pushing total costs to nearly $6.2 billion. The...
View ArticleDAVID DALLAS — The dirt on Kemper Coal
The State Supreme Court has told Mississippi Power and its parent Southern Company to refund money to almost 200,000 customers. The state’s Public Service Commission had given Southern Company...
View ArticleDAVID DALLAS — The Dirt on Kemper Coal II: Lord Barbour Strikes Back
When the facts are piling up against you, change the subject. That is former Governor Haley Barbour’s new, painfully obvious strategy as he continues to lobby for Southern Company and its bottomless...
View ArticleBarbour-Swoope team played .500 ball, at best
Thank heavens there is still a bright line between a news story and a column. Neither is better than the other. Each has its advantages and disadvantages. A news story is supposed to be factual. Hence,...
View ArticleSuit against Kemper employee Brett Wingo is dismissed
Jack Weatherly A case involving a key manager at Mississippi Power Co’.s Kemper County clean-coal plant who had been taken to court in Birmingham by the utility’s parent has been dismissed. To keep...
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Mississippi Power, regulators, ask Kemper decision rehearing
JACKSON — The Mississippi Power Co. and the Public Service Commission are asking the state’s highest court to reconsider its ruling overturning rate increases to fund the company’s Kemper County power...
View ArticleALAN TURNER — Kemper: A bird’s eye view
On June 19, I accepted an invitation from Mississippi Power to visit their Kemper facility, and get an “up close and personal” view of the plant and how it works. Notwithstanding all of the controversy...
View ArticleMississippi, other states score victory in challenge to EPA rule
By JACK WEATHERLY Mississippi is one of 23 states that succeeded in convincing the U.S. Supreme Court that cost of compliance — estimated at $9.6 billion a year — for coal-fired power plants should...
View ArticleRegulators order end to Kemper rate increase, plan refunds
JACKSON — Regulators on Tuesday ordered Mississippi Power Co. to lower rates later this month and plan for customer refunds by November. In issuing the order, the Mississippi Public Service Commission...
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