re: Warnings about energy usage in Texas

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Fedgov made them close the coal plants, sad.

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Luckily some of them were just mothballed and rushed back into service or run on natural gas.

I passed the old coal plant in Gulfport last night, and to my surprise it was on and you could see that the plant was in use.

The Gulfport plant was converted to natural gas in 2015.

I noticed reduced use of the plant after Southern’s new clean coal plant in Kemper County became operational after years of delays and cost overruns.

Eventually, the new clean coal plant in Kemper was converted to natural gas because syngas was too power intensive to create from lignite coal mine from the site.

In the summer of 2021, Plans were announced that Mississippi Power wanted to shutdown a unit of about 1/4 of the power that could be generated at the plant in Gulfport as part of a green initiative in 2024. I guess they may be rethinking that idea.

There must be something in the water in the executive board rooms at power generating companies: Entergy and Southern/Mississippi Power. They certainly know how screw over the ratepayers.