Mississippi Power is an investor-owned electric utility and a wholly owned subsidiary of Atlanta based Southern Company

Southern Company

Southern Company is a public utility holding company of primarily electric utilities in the southern United States. It is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia with executive offices also located in Birmingham, Alabama. The company is currently the 16th largest utility company in the world and the...

. Mississippi Power Company (MPC) is headquartered in Gulfport, Mississippi

Gulfport, Mississippi

Gulfport is the second largest city in Mississippi after the state capital Jackson. It is the larger of the two principal cities of the Gulfport-Biloxi, Mississippi Metropolitan Statistical Area, which is included in the Gulfport-Biloxi-Pascagoula, Mississippi Combined Statistical Area. As of the...

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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

Collins, Mississippi

Collins is a city in Covington County, Mississippi, United States. The population was 2,761 at the 2005 census. It is the county seat of Covington County....

, with wholesale electric power which, in turn, they resell to customers in southeast Mississippi.

Fossil fuel power plants

Plant	Nearest City	Capacity
A.J. Watson Electric Generating Plant	Gulfport, Mississippi Gulfport, Mississippi Gulfport is the second largest city in Mississippi after the state capital Jackson. It is the larger of the two principal cities of the Gulfport-Biloxi, Mississippi Metropolitan Statistical Area, which is included in the Gulfport-Biloxi-Pascagoula, Mississippi Combined Statistical Area. As of the...	1,051,000 kW
Victor J. Daniel Electric Generating Plant (Plant Daniel) Plant Daniel The Victor J. Daniel Electric Generating Plant is a major 2-gigawatt, four-unit fossil fuel power plant, generating about 1 GWe from two coal-fired subcritical drum-type units and 1 GWe from its two newer, gas-fired combined-cycle units. Plant Daniel is located in Jackson County, near Escatawpa,...	Escatawpa, Mississippi Escatawpa, Mississippi Escatawpa is a census-designated place in Jackson County, Mississippi, United States. It is part of the Pascagoula, Mississippi Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 3,566 at the 2000 census.-History:...	2,000,000 kW
Green County Electric Generating Plant (40 percent ownership)	Demopolis, Alabama Demopolis, Alabama Demopolis is the largest city in Marengo County, Alabama, United States. The population was 7,483 at the time of the 2010 United States Census....	200,000 kW
Lonnie P. Sweatt Electric Generating Plant	Meridian, Mississippi Meridian, Mississippi Meridian is the county seat of Lauderdale County, Mississippi. It is the sixth largest city in the state and the principal city of the Meridian, Mississippi Micropolitan Statistical Area...	80,000 kW
Barney Eaton Electric Generating Plant (Plant Eaton) Eaton Electric Generating Plant The Eaton Electric Generating Plant is a three-unit coal-fired power plant located in Forrest County, in Petal, Mississippi. Each of the three units generates 22.5 Megawatts of electricity, with a total plant capacity of 67.5 MW...	Petal, Mississippi Petal, Mississippi Petal is a city in Forrest County, Mississippi, United States, along the Leaf River. It is part of the Hattiesburg, Mississippi Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population is 10,617 per the US Census estimates performed in July 2007....	80,000 kW

Combustion turbines

• Chevron Cogenerating Plant (Jackson County, Mississippi
  Jackson County, Mississippi
  There were 47,676 households out of which 37.00% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 55.70% were married couples living together, 14.50% had a female householder with no husband present, and 25.10% were non-families. 20.80% of all households were made up of individuals and 7.10% had...
  
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• Plant Sweatt (Meridian, Mississippi
  Meridian, Mississippi
  Meridian is the county seat of Lauderdale County, Mississippi. It is the sixth largest city in the state and the principal city of the Meridian, Mississippi Micropolitan Statistical Area...
  
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• Plant Watson (Gulfport, Mississippi
  Gulfport, Mississippi
  Gulfport is the second largest city in Mississippi after the state capital Jackson. It is the larger of the two principal cities of the Gulfport-Biloxi, Mississippi Metropolitan Statistical Area, which is included in the Gulfport-Biloxi-Pascagoula, Mississippi Combined Statistical Area. As of the...
  
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