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Mississippi Power 
Type Public (NYSE: MPJ) Industry Utilities Founded 1925 Headquarters Gulfport, Mississippi, USA Key people Anthony J. Topazi (President & CEO) [1] 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.[2]
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Generating Plants
Fossil fuel power plants
Plant Nearest City Capacity A.J. Watson Electric Generating Plant Gulfport, Mississippi 1,051,000 kW Victor J. Daniel Electric Generating Plant (Plant Daniel) Escatawpa, Mississippi 2,000,000 kW Green County Electric Generating Plant (40 percent ownership) Demopolis, Alabama 200,000 kW Lonnie P. Sweatt Electric Generating Plant Meridian, Mississippi 80,000 kW Barney Eaton Electric Generating Plant (Plant Eaton) Petal, Mississippi 80,000 kW Combustion turbines
- Chevron Cogenerating Plant (Jackson County, Mississippi)
- Plant Sweatt (Meridian, Mississippi)
- Plant Watson (Gulfport, Mississippi)
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- Southern Company
- Power companies of the United States
- Companies based in Mississippi
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