Doesn’t Mississippi already have plenty of power?
Entergy Mississippi is working hard to keep electric costs at affordable levels. Currently, Entergy Mississippi must buy power from independent power producers that utilize costly natural gas to serve Mississippi’s growing energy demand, and the cost of that natural gas has increased more than 500 percent since 2002. Entergy Mississippi currently needs an extra 500 megawatts of baseload (non-natural gas) power, and that need is predicted to continue to increase in the next 10 years. Additional baseload power, such as the kind produced by a nuclear generating plant, will allow Mississippi to address this power shortage, be economically competitive and provide affordable, clean power to customers.
