Southern Wins Rate Boost for Kemper Clean Coal Plant
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Mississippi regulators threw a lifeline to Southern Co.’s financially troubled clean-coal power project by temporarily raising customer bills 18 percent for a facility whose backers include the U.S. government.
Southern’s request to raise rates by $159 million a year was approved on a 2-1 vote by the Mississippi Public Service Commission at a meeting Thursday.