— A final cost-cutting pressure relates to the need to automate power plant functions and reduce headcount. A nuclear power plant may employ as many as a thousand people; a coal plant around 700 or so.

 — A plan to slash emissions from coal burning by 65 percent has proved too problematic at the beleaguered Kemper power plant. The Mississippi power plant widely …

 — However, the coal gasification system, called TRIG™, had only been tested on a small-scale facility which processed an average of less than two tons of coal per hour and remained unproven in a …

 — Mississippi Power last week filed for a certificate of public convenience and necessity at the Mississippi Public Service Commission (MPSC) to build a 582-MW integrated gasification combined cycle ...

 — The $7.5 billion Kemper plant was designed to gasify soft lignite coal, strip out much of the carbon dioxide and other pollutants, and burn the gas to generate power.

 — 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 Plant Ratcliffe. In February 2018, the PSC unanimously approved a settlement that reduced the amount of capital costs the …

 — As Southern Company's Kemper power plant boondoggle stalls yet again, job postings reveal that a group of key engineers and managers has left the company. ... "The Operations Manager will be responsible for providing leadership for the Kemper County Generating Facility," according to the job summary, and must foster "reliable and ...

 — The plant's operations manager, one of the most senior positions at the facility, tasked with day-to-day oversight of the entire power plant and its roughly 100 …

 — 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. It's the latest fallout from the suspending the part of the plant that was supposed to gasify coal and remove pollutants. Mississippi Power has said it could lay off 250 workers at the plant.

 — The $7.5 billion Kemper plant was designed to gasify soft lignite coal, strip out much of the carbon dioxide and other pollutants, and burn the gas to generate power.

 — The Kemper County plant was supposed to be a cutting-edge demonstration of the power of "clean coal," and, despite running five years late and more than $4 billion over budget, Kemper was able ...

 — JACKSON — Mississippi Power Co. now says it won't complete its Kemper County power plant until the end of the year, a delay of a month that pushes the price tag up by $25 million to nearly $7 ...

 — One of the nation's largest symbols of carbon capture technology — the Kemper project — has collapsed into a pile of debris, highlighting the strategy of one of the nation's largest utilities as...

 — The $7.5 billion Kemper plant was designed to gasify soft lignite coal, strip out much of the carbon dioxide and other pollutants and burn the gas to generate power.

 — Commission chairman Brandon Presley has said Mississippi Power customers all together have been paying $126 million annually for the Kemper plant's natural gas services since 2015. This is just a portion of those customers' overall utility bills each year, he said. Yet, there could be more wrangling over the ripple effects of …

n the late afternoon of December 14, 2021, I made a visit to MS Power Company's Plant Ratcliffe (formerly known as the Kemper County Integrated Gasification Combined Cycle Generating Project) near DeKalb, MS. The purpose of the visit was to get an update on the activities at the site, understand the

 — By Jennifer Jacob Brown [email protected] The talk has been going on for a long time. Mississippi Power Company wants to build a gasified lignite power plant in Kemper County. If

 — 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. Like many agricultural Mississippi counties, it has lost much population, jobs and even towns since this 1911 public-domain map.

 — The Kemper Power Plant leverages innovative technology to power Mississippi, while preventing pollutants from entering the atmosphere. Home; The Kemper Plant. Kemper Plant FAQ ... For additional information about how the Kemper County energy facility, one of the US flagship CCS projects, will demonstrate the feasibility of …

 — Kemper County Power Generation Facility, the flagship "clean coal" project in rural eastern Mississippi, will rely on natural gas rather than coal to produce electricity, …

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 — Mississippi Power's investment will be approximately $2.2 billion. Approximately 260 permanent jobs, plus 1,000 jobs during peak construction, will be …

 — Mississippi Power last week announced that its new integrated gasification combined cycle (IGCC) plant under construction in Kemper County, Miss., will be named in honor of David M. Ratcliffe ...

 — 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.

jobs in Kemper County, MS. Sort by: relevance - date. 1,000+ jobs. Director of Logistics. Van Zyverden, Inc. Meridian, MS 39305. Typically responds within 1 day ... cost-effective, and timely movement of flower bulbs and plants from suppliers to customers. This role requires a strategic thinker with a deep understanding of the unique challenges ...

 — The Kemper County power plant was supposed to be a world leader in turning soft coal into a gas and burning it to generate power, while removing climate-warming carbon dioxide and other pollutants.

maintenance buildings will soon be all that is left at Plant Ratcliffe. You may have seen the reports that on October 9, 2021, parts of the former Kemper County facility were …

 — JACKSON - More than $4 billion over budget and more than two years late, Mississippi Power Co. announced Tuesday that its $7.1 billion Kemper County plant is finally making electricity from ...

 — The plant is designed to produce 582 megawatts, or power 190,000 homes, once it starts generating electricity from lignite. Shepard said the commission approved …

The combined cycle unit of Kemper County IGCC power plant started commercial production in August 2014. Mississippi Power has set up an integrated gasification combined cycle (IGCC) plant in Kemper County, Mississippi, US, in 2014. ... The plant will generate 12,000 direct and indirect jobs during the construction phase and more than …