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Want to lower your energy bill and eliminate the need for another dirty, expensive power plant like Kemper? Utilities like Entergy Mississippi are trying to stall progress by delaying the new energy efficiency standards until 2020! Submit your comment today. Tell the PSC commissioners to reject any further delays in implementing energy efficiency policies.

Your comment to the PSC will go a long way to ensuring we get strong energy efficiency programs here in Mississippi.

FROM THE HUFFINGTON POST
7/11/2017
BY Mary Anne Hitt, Contributor
Director of the Sierra Club Beyond Coal Campaign/
Co-written by Louie Miller, director of Sierra Club Mississippi.

These three truths became well known to Mississippians put on the hook for the so-called Kemper “clean coal” gasification experiment. Touted as the flagship for the future of coal, and backed by the U.S. Department of Energy and the heavy-hitter utility, Southern Company, what could go wrong? As many predicted from the very beginning, costs soon spiraled out of control; what started out with a $1.8 billion price tag ended up at $7.5 billion plus, giving Kemper the dubious distinction of being the most expensive power plant ever built in the United States. READ MORE

FROM THE MISSISSIPPI BUSINESS JOURNAL
MAY 12, 2017 BY RICHARD SUN
In a recent column, Bill Crawford asserted that the issue with Kemper is prudent fuel diversity. It is not and never has been. The issue has always been whether the rate payers of Mississippi Power should bear the risk of unproven technology and a long-shot side bet on natural gas prices.

Bill Crawford uses natural gas fuel price uncertainty as the justification for diversifying with Kemper. He cites a high gas price at Henry Hub of $18.48; that was a one day price on February 25, 2003; the day before and the day afterwards the price was below $12.00. The annual average that year was $5.47. Since there is a very predictable seasonal winter peak in natural gas prices, the annual average is more relevant.

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GROWING MISSISSIPPI'S CLEAN ENERGY ECONOMY
Jackson, MS -- Today’s filing by Pattern Energy Group LP before the Mississippi Public Service
Commission is a step in the right direction for the State of Mississippi. Pattern’s transmission project, known as Southern Cross, will deliver up to 2,000 megawatts of abundant, affordable, and clean wind energy from Texas to Mississippi and the Southeast. The project is expected to generate significant economic benefits and jobs to the State of Mississippi.