Mississippi Power

Mississippi Power
Company typeSubsidiary
NYSE: MPJ
IndustryUtilities
Founded1925 (1925)
HeadquartersGulfport, Mississippi, United States
Key people
Anthony Wilson (chairman, president & CEO)
Number of employees
1,253
Websitemississippipower.com

Mississippi Power, preciously known as Mississippi Power Company (MPC), is an electric utility company. Its headquarters are in Gulfport, Mississippi, and it is a subsidiary of Atlanta-based, Southern Company.

Mississippi Power has more than 1,000 employees and serves most of the cities, towns, and communities within the 23 counties of southeast Mississippi. The utility also serves six Rural Electrification Administration-financed electric cooperatives: Coast EPA (Electric Power Association), Singing River EPA, Southern Pine EPA, Dixie EPA, Pearl River EPA, and East Mississippi EPA - and one municipality, City of Collins, with wholesale electric power which, in turn, they resell to customers in southeast Mississippi. Based on public data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration, Mississippi Power's 2018 price of electricity to retail customers averaged 8.99 cents, compared to a national average of 10.58 cents.