Mississippi Power restores electricity to 44% of its customers -

Washington (Platts)--5Sep2005

Mississippi Power has restored power to 44% or 74,000 of its customers
cut off a week ago after Hurricane Katrina passed through the US Gulf Coast
region, the Southern Company unit said Monday. 

     "Service was restored to more than 13,000 customers Sunday and we were
able to re-energize several additional substations, including Picayune, Bay St
Louis and Waveland, Richton, Poplarville, Shubuta and Carriere," a company
spokesman said. "We should see lights coming on in those areas today, as we've
had crews working for several days to rebuild distribution lines. We expect to
see more progress in all of the other areas we've been rebuilding." 

     The company still has 22,281 power outages in its Coast division service
area, affecting 30% of its customers in that region; it has 23,534 outages in
its Pine Belt division, affecting 40% of its customers in that area; and it
has 28,503 outages in its Meridian division, affecting 76% of its customers
there. The utility serves 195,000 customers in 23 southeastern Mississippi
counties. 

     Mississippi Power employees were also able to connect two major
transmission lines over the weekend, strengthening and stabilizing the
backbone of the power delivery system, the company said. On Friday, the firm
said it had restored power to 28,000 customers, double the number of a day
earlier.

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