"Coal: Southern Co. Suspends $7.5B Kemper Plant"

"Southern Co. said it will stop all work on the carbon-capture portion of its $7.5 billion power plant in Kemper County, Miss., indefinitely suspending a project that coal backers in Washington had hoped would boost prospects for clean coal.

The decision by Mississippi Power Co., the Southern Co. unit building the plant, came late today in an after-market filing with Mississippi regulators.

The decision comes a week after the Mississippi Public Service Commission said the power plant should run as a natural gas plant. The massive power project, meant to gasify lignite coal, had an original price tag of roughly $2.9 billion. It now stands at $7.5 billion and counting after months of delayed startup dates."

Kristi E. Swartz reports for Greenwire June 28, 2017.

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