List of power stations in Mississippi
Sources of Mississippi utility-scale electricity generation:
full-year 2019[1]
Coal (6.7%)
Natural Gas (74.0%)
Nuclear (16.7%)
Biomass (2.1%)
Solar (0.5%)
This is a list of electricity-generating power stations in the U.S. state of Mississippi, sorted by type and name. In 2019, Mississippi had a total summer capacity of 14,541 MW through all of its power plants, and a net generation of 65,959 GWh.[2] The corresponding electrical energy generation mix was 74.0% natural gas, 16.7% nuclear, 6.7% coal, 2.1% biomass, and 0.5% solar.[1]
Nuclear power plants[]
Name | Location | Coordinates | Capacity (MW) |
Operator | Year opened |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Grand Gulf Nuclear Station | Port Gibson | 32°00′29″N 91°02′52″W / 32.0081°N 91.0478°W | 1,401 | Entergy | 1985 |
Fossil-fuel power plants[]
Coal[]
Name | Location | Coordinates | Capacity (MW) |
Operator | Year opened |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Victor J. Daniel Electric Generating Plant | Escatawpa | 30°31′56″N 88°33′19″W / 30.5322°N 88.5553°W | 1,004 | Mississippi Power, Gulf Power | 1977 |
Red Hills Generation Facility | Ackerman | 33°22′34″N 89°13′06″W / 33.3761°N 89.2183°W | 440 | SE Choctaw, LLC | 2001 |
Natural gas[]
Name | Location | Capacity (MW) |
Operator | Year opened |
---|---|---|---|---|
Ackerman Combined Cycle Plant | Ackerman | 710 | Tennessee Valley Authority | 2007 |
Gerald Andrus Power Plant | Greenville | 736 | Entergy | 1975 |
Attala Generating Station | Sallis | 455.3 | Entergy | 2001 |
CF Industries Yazoo City Complex | Yazoo City | 20 | CF Industries | 1984 |
Batesville Generation Facility | Batesville | 858 | Cooperative Energy | 2000 |
Caledonia Combined Cycle Plant | Steens | 765 | Tennessee Valley Authority | 2003 |
Chevron Cogenerating Plant | Pascagoula | 132 | Mississippi Power | 1968 |
Choctaw County Generating Station | French Camp | 781 | Entergy | 2003 |
Plant Daniel | Escatawpa | 1,081 | Mississippi Power | 2001 |
Hinds Energy Facility | Jackson | 491 | Entergy | 2001 |
Kemper Combustion Turbine Plant | De Kalb | 293.2 | Tennessee Valley Authority | 2002 |
Magnolia Combined Cycle Plant | Ashland | 918 | Tennessee Valley Authority | 2003 |
Plant Ratcliffe | De Kalb | 675.4 | Mississippi Power | 2014 |
Moselle Generating Station | Moselle | 477 | Cooperative Energy | 1970 |
Silver Creek Generating Plant | Prentiss | 225 | Cooperative Energy | 2003 |
Southaven Combined Cycle Plant | Southaven | 780 | Tennessee Valley Authority | 2003 |
Plant Sweatt | Meridian | 32 | Mississippi Power | 1951 |
Sylvarena Generating Plant | Raleigh | 129 | Cooperative Energy | 2003 |
Gulfport | 749 | Mississippi Power | 2015 | |
LL Wilkins Power Plant | Clarksdale | 49.5 | Clarksdale Public Utilities | 1961 |
Baxter Wilson Power Plant | Vicksburg | 529.8 | Entergy | 1967 |
Yazoo | Yazoo City | 33.3 | Public Service Commission of Yazoo City | 1954 |
Renewable power plants[]
Data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration.[3]
Biomass and municipal waste[]
Name | Location | Coordinates | Capacity (MW) |
Fuel type |
Operator | Year opened |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Columbus MS | Lowndes County | 33°21′37″N 88°27′36″W / 33.3602°N 88.4600°W | 128.6 | wood/wood waste | International Paper | 1982/1987/ 1990 |
Georgia-Pacific Monticello Paper | Lawrence County | 31°37′43″N 90°04′51″W / 31.6285°N 90.0809°W | 81.5 | wood/wood waste | Georgia-Pacific | 1968 |
Intl. Paper Vicksburg Mill | Warren County | 32°31′45″N 90°46′27″W / 32.5292°N 90.7742°W | 38.5 | wood/wood waste | International Paper | 1967 |
Leaf River Cellulose | Perry County | 31°14′36″N 89°02′44″W / 31.2434°N 89.0456°W | 52.2 | wood/wood waste | Leaf River LLC. | 1984 |
Prairie Bluff | Chickasaw County | 33°57′16″N 88°59′33″W / 33.9544°N 88.9925°W | 1.6 | landfill gas | Waste Management | 2012 |
Solar[]
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Name | Location | Coordinates | Capacity (MW) |
Year opened |
---|---|---|---|---|
Hattiesburg Solar Farm | Forrest County | 31°16′33″N 89°18′04″W / 31.2758°N 89.3012°W | 50.0 | 2017 |
Meridian Solar Farm (I&II) | Lauderdale County | 32°33′12″N 88°34′49″W / 32.5533°N 88.5804°W | 57.5 | 2019 |
Sumrall Solar Farm (I&II) | Lamar County | 31°24′13″N 89°29′51″W / 31.4035°N 89.4976°W | 104.0 | 2017 |
See also[]
- List of power stations in the United States
- List of power stations operated by the Tennessee Valley Authority
References[]
- ^ a b "Electricity Data Browser, Net generation for all sectors, Mississippi, Fuel Type-Check all, Annual, 2001–19". www.eia.gov. Retrieved 2021-07-01.
- ^ "Mississippi Electricity Profile". U.S. Energy Information Administration. Retrieved July 1, 2021.
- ^ Energy Information Administration (15 September 2020). "Form EIA-860 detailed data with previous form data (EIA-860A/860B)". eia.gov. Archived from the original on 18 September 2020.
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