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The retirements would shut down 976 MW of its nearly 1.5 GW of gas and coal steam units. The Mississippi Public Service Commission identified that 950 MW of coal- or gas-fired steam turbines were uneconomic and not needed for grid reliability and asked the utility to shutter the units by the end of 2027.
The utility would retain more efficient fossil fuel resources that were more economic to dispatch over gas or coal steam units in 2020. Natural gas combined-cycle units became a larger portion of the utility s energy production amid lower gas prices and declining load growth in recent years, the utility wrote in its IRP.
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