[USA] Entergy Mississippi begins building new natural gas power station

On September 3, 2024, Entergy Mississippi LLC, which provides electricity to roughly 459,000 customers in 45 counties across Mississippi, announced a project to build a new power station for the first time in 50 years. [1] The station is expected to be completed in 2028. Haley Fisackerly, president and CEO of Entergy Mississippi stated that the company is investing in clean and efficient power generation now to help lower future bills for customers. The facility will be the first advanced combined-cycle combustion turbine power station that the company has built from start to finish. It is a dual-fuel technology facility, where it is designed to support blended hydrogen to produce reliable energy. The new power station will replace the Gerald Andrus Steam Electric Station in Greenville, which will be retired. The replacement of older power plants with more efficient technology indicates that more electricity will be produced from the same amount of fuel while reducing carbon emissions.

[1] https://www.entergynewsroom.com/news/entergy-mississippi-build-first-new-power-station-in-50-years/