As Time Runs Out for Southern Company, Brain Drain Begins at Kemper
Specific updates to the schedule and cost estimate for the Kemper IGCC are expected to be reflected in the Kemper IGCC Project Monthly Status Report through February 2017, which Mississippi Power expects to file by early April 2017. "The challenge is for them to get all these untested systems to work – and to work together," Wingo said.
The Kemper project just collapsed. What it signifies for …
Mississippi Power told state utility regulators earlier this year that it would close Plant Daniel by December 2027. The utility is closing 950 megawatts of coal and older, less-efficient...
Whistleblower says utility should repay $382 million in federal aid
ATLANTA (AP) — A former employee is suing to force a Mississippi utility to repay $382 million that the federal government gave to build a failed coal-fueled power plant. Kelli Williams, a former construction manager for Atlanta-based Southern Co., filed a whistleblower lawsuit against the company and its subsidiary Mississippi Power Co. in …
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Mississippi Power has a generating fleet made up of both coal and natural gas power plants. This diversity is key to keeping energy costs stable. ... Plant Ratcliffe (Kemper County) Gas-Fired Combined Cycle. 1. 769,898 …
Controlled demolition goes as planned at Kemper plant
Published: Oct. 11, 2021 at 2:16 PM PDT KEMPER COUNTY, Miss. (WTOK) - It has been 11 years since construction began on the Kemper County coal plant. This past …
Boondoggle in Kemper County: Powerful Ignored Red Flags of 'Clean Coal
December 16, 2021. Two explosions sounded in Kemper County in the early morning hours of Oct. 9, 2021, to the surprise of area citizens. De Kalb is the county seat of Kemper County in east Mississippi on the Alabama border and home of Mississippi Power's failed "clean coal" project.
Southern Company
Southbound Society Business, Inc. is partnering with Mississippi Power Company and Kellogg Brown and Root, LLC to design, construct, ... Kemper County, Mississippi; …
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Lignite reserves near the plant site owned by Mississippi Power Company and developed and mined by Liberty Fuels, a subsidiary of North American Coal Corporation, will supply the feedstock for the IGCC plant. The …
MS Power tests at lignite plant, starts hiring permanent workers
We've got a fantastic work force, and we were able to hire mostly local." While the coal plant went on line back in June 2013, Mississippi Power officials are hoping the lignite plant will be ...
Environmental groups are skeptical of Mississippi Power's plan to
Plant Daniel has two gas-fired combined cycle units (1.07 gigawatts generation capacity) along with two coal-fired units (500 megawatts capacity) and is the state's largest power plant in terms of capacity. In addition to Mississippi Power, the two coal units provide capacity for northwest Florida's Gulf Power.
EIS-0409: Final Environmental Impact Statement
This Final EIS assesses the potential environmental impacts that would result from a proposed DOE action to provide cost-shared funding and possibly a loan guarantee for construction and operation of advanced power generation plant in Kemper County, Mississippi. The project was selected under DOE's Clean Coal Power Initiative to …
MS Power tests at lignite plant, starts hiring …
KEMPER COUNTY, MS (WLOX) - After dealing with delays and budget overruns, construction is starting to wind down on Mississippi Power's $5 billion lignite plant in Kemper County. Officials said ...
Major "Clean Coal" Project in Mississippi Shuts Down
The Kemper plant was designed to convert locally mined lignite coal into a synthetic gas by heating it under high pressures in the presence of steam. The carbon in the gas could then supposedly be ...
Piles of Dirty Secrets Behind a Model 'Clean Coal' Project
The Kemper coal plant is more than two years behind schedule and more than $4 billion over its initial budget, $2.4 billion, and it is still not operational. ... the transfer of about $270 million ...
The Kemper project just collapsed. What it signifies for CCS
The facility, Plant Ratcliffe, captured worldwide attention and was supposed to host the first commercial-scale carbon capture project on a large coal plant in the United States. But what was known as "Kemper" for most of its construction life stopped after delays and increased costs prompted Mississippi utility regulators to say in 2017 ...
IEEFA U.S.: Southern Company demolishes part of …
IEEFA U.S.: Southern Company demolishes part of the $7.5 billion Kemper power plant in Mississippi October 14, 2021 David Schlissel Two explosions rocked the Kemper power plant on Saturday …
Whistleblower says Mississippi Power should repay $382M in …
ATLANTA — A former employee is suing to force a Mississippi utility to repay $382 million that the federal government gave to build a failed coal-fueled power plant. Kelli Williams, a former ...
Two years since Kemper clean coal project ended
July 6 marked two years since the Mississippi Public Service Commission issued an order that called for a settlement in the battle over the controversial Kemper Project clean coal power plant, known now as …
Whistleblower says utility should repay $382 million in federal aid
A former construction manager is suing to force Mississippi Power and parent Southern Co. to repay $382 million in federal aid given to the failed clean coal plant, saying the company lied ...
Settlement reached over clean coal fiasco in Mississippi
Once touted as a model for the future of coal, the Mississippi Public Service Commission forced the unit of Atlanta-based Southern Co. to quit construction on the Kemper County plant in 2017, with shareholders absorbing about $6.4 billion in losses. ... For Kemper County, Mississippi Power initially estimated a price tag of $1.8 billion when ...
New Fraud Allegations Emerge at Mississippi's Troubled "Clean Coal
August 11, 2017. Southern Co. is accused of fraudulently misrepresenting the prospects for its troubled "clean coal" project in Kemper County, Mississippi in several legal filings this summer. Southern announced in late July that it was shuttering the troubled "clean coal" part of Kemper after construction ran years behind schedule and ...
In Mississippi, a power plant is designed to shape the future of coal
A $5-billion power plant is being constructed at the mouth of a mine for lignite coal in rural Kemper County, Miss. If successful, up to 65% of the plant's potential carbon dioxide emissions ...
Kemper coal operation to cut 75 jobs | Business | meridianstar
Liberty Fuels notified employees it planned to cut 75 jobs at its Kemper County facility. The company that supplies lignite coal to Mississippi Power's Kemper …
The Spectacular Failure Of Southern Company's Kemper Coal …
Southern Company's Kemper plant, a 582 MW power plant was supposed to cost $2.2 Billion and open in May 2014. ... new Kemper coal and natural gas facility was sold as a 582 MW Coal with Carbon ...
Bosses at world's most ambitious clean coal plant kept problems …
The Kemper plant in Mississippi – held up as the global model for a new generation of "clean coal" power plants – was the most expensive fossil fuel power plant in US history, with a $7 ...
Opinion | The Myth of 'Clean Coal': Power for Southern People …
Artis Burney. Oct 15, 2022. The project was an ambitious one: in 2010, construction began on the Kemper Power Plant, touted as the pinnacle of the movement to bring "clean coal" to America. The plant, which was intended to be the largest of its kind, and to serve as a proof-of-concept for future plants to follow, would spend the next eleven ...
Regulators settle 'emotionally intense' Kemper power plant case
by Kendra Ablaza February 6, 2018. The U.S. Department of Energy provided $407 million in financing for the Kemper plant. State utility regulators say they have closed their books on the most expensive public utility project in the history of the state. The Mississippi Public Service Commission unanimously voted Tuesday to approve a …
Coal mine layoffs latest fallout at Kemper power plant
DEKALB - The company that supplies lignite coal to Mississippi Power Co.'s Kemper County power plant says it will lay off 75 workers at the mine.
Whistleblower: Utility defrauded feds out of millions
Bills for Mississippi Power's 192,000 customers rose 15% in 2015 for the part of the plant that today burns natural gas instead of gasified coal. The rest of the plant has been demolished.
Mississippi Power plans to shutter coal, gas plants
Under the plan, Mississippi Power will be closing 975 MW of generation, including a total of three natural gas units. That includes Plant Watson's Unit 4, a 268 MW gas steam generator that will ...