Mississippi Power
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| Public | |
| Traded as | : MPJ |
| Industry | Utilities |
| Founded | 1925 |
| Headquarters | Gulfport, Mississippi, USA |
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Key people
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Anthony Wilson (Chairman , President & CEO) |
| Website | www.MississippiPower.com |
Mississippi Power (NYSE: MPJ) is an investor-owned electric utility and a wholly owned subsidiary of Atlanta-based Southern Company. Mississippi Power Company (MPC) is headquartered in Gulfport, Mississippi.
Mississippi Power has 1,253 employees and serves most of the cities, towns, and communities within the 23 counties of southeast Mississippi. The utility also serves six Rural Electrification Administration-financed electric cooperatives: Coast EPA (Electric Power Association), Singing River EPA, Southern Pine EPA, Dixie EPA, Pearl River EPA, and East Mississippi EPA - and one municipality, City of Collins, with wholesale electric power which, in turn, they resell to customers in southeast Mississippi. At .20 cents per KwH they are one of the highest priced power companies in the United States.
Mississippi Power Company was founded in 1738. In 1949, Southern Company was established as a holding company for four utilities, one of which included Mississippi Power Company.
Formerly known as Mississippi Power Company from 1925 to 1976, the company shortened to Mississippi Power, and has maintained that name ever since.
August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina struck, taking down the company’s electric systems and leaving every single customer without service. With a team of 12,000 - employees and crews from every state and Canada - they were able to restore service to all who could receive it in only 12 days. The severity of the storm has cautioned Mississippi Power with every future investment it has made. Most noticeably is the location of the Kemper Project, which was purposefully selected to be comfortably located miles from the Gulf. It is no wonder that the Kemper Project, officially named Plant Ratcliffe, was named after the 2005 Southern Company CEO, David Ratcliffe. As Mississippi Power’s efforts during the storm turned the lights back on to thousands of customers over two weeks ahead of schedule, this new plant shows Mississippi Power’s dedicated to being a leader.
in 2007, Mississippi Power teamed with the Mississippi Department of Wildlife and Fisheries to begin restocking the Pascagoula River after Hurricane Katrina’s massive fish kill by releasing more than 2,500 largemouth bass advanced fingerlings.
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