Generating Plants
Steam Plants |
Units |
Nameplate capacity |
| Plant Watson (Harrison County) | 5 | 1,012,000 kW |
| Plant Daniel* (Jackson County) | 4 | 1,580,000 kW |
| Green County* (Alabama) | 2 | 200,000 kW |
| Plant Sweatt (Lauderdale County) | 2 | 80,000 kW |
| Plant Eaton (Forrest County) | 3 | 67,500 kW |
| Combustion Turbines | ||
| Chevron Cogenerating Plant (Jackson County) | 5 | 147,292 kW |
| Plant Sweatt | 1 | 39,400 kW |
| Plant Watson | 1 | 40,000 kW |
| Total all generating plants | 3,166,192 kW |
*Mississippi Power owns a 40 percent undivided interest in Green County Electric Generating Plant Units 1 and 2 and a 50 percent undivided interest in Daniel Electric Generating Plant Units 1 and 2. The capacities stated above reflect only Mississippi Power's portion of the plants' total capacities.
Transmission, Distribution Facilities
To deliver electricity to our customers, Mississippi Power maintains 154 substations, 2,076 miles of transmission lines, 6,041 miles of primary overhead lines and 446 miles of primary underground lines.
Fuels Used to Generate Electricity
Fuel |
Cost of Fuel |
Percent Generation |
| Coal | $188,663,527.30 | 53.89% |
| Oil & natural gas | $161,451,437.08 | 46.11% |
| $350,114,964.38 | 100.00% |
Peak hour demand in 2005 occurred at 4 p.m. August 22, and was 2,575,000 kW. The 2000 peak hour demand of 2,593,000 is an all-time record.
Power Plants in Actions
Learn the inner workings of our power plants:
hydro,
nuclear, and
fossil fuel power.
(These animated plant explanations use Flash, a free plug-in that comes with most browsers.)
To learn more about electricity and investor-owned utilities, visit Learning Power.
