MS transmission – Entergy

$1.3M transmission update helps prevent future customer costs

Candace Coleman — Tue, 11 Jun 2024 23:36:00 +0000

Entergy Mississippi recently completed a $1.3 million project to update a major transmission pathway coming from the Grand Gulf Nuclear Station. The completion of the project supports affordability and significantly lowers the risk of transmission interruptions between Entergy Mississippi’s single largest power resource and the Franklin Substation located in Franklin County, Mississippi.

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$37M substation enhances reliability in northwest Mississippi

Entergy Team — Thu, 07 Mar 2024 04:32:00 +0000

JACKSON, Miss.– Entergy Mississippi has completed construction of a new distribution substation in the Snowden Grove Park community, near Tchulahoma Road in Southaven. The substation is a part of a $37 million project, which included constructing nearly two miles of new transmission lines, 12 miles of new and rebuilt distribution lines, and 74 new composite poles.

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Reflecting on 100 years in business, Entergy Mississippi is planning for another successful century

Admin — Fri, 22 Dec 2023 02:00:00 +0000

One of the oldest power generation companies in America, Entergy Mississippi, is celebrating its 100th anniversary in 2023. The organization began as The Mississippi Power & Light Company in 1923, with a handful of municipal electric systems. Today, it serves over 450,000 residential, commercial, and industrial customers in 45 of Mississippi’s 82 counties. The organization is passionate about…

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Transmission system upholds heroic legacy of service

Mississippi Team — Thu, 16 Nov 2023 20:00:00 +0000

Entergy Mississippi’s electric transmission system is a lot like a superhero—a sprawling, tireless giant equipped to move massive amounts of power for long distances over land and water at the speed of light. When completed nearly 60 years ago, the company’s extra high voltage transmission system reflected the latest technology in modern, reliable, efficient power delivery. Today…

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Entergy Mississippi to replace wooden transmission poles across service territory

Mississippi Team — Fri, 06 Oct 2023 20:18:00 +0000

When you flip a lightswitch to “on,” you expect the light to come on. You probably don’t consider how the power got to your house or how far it had to travel to reach you. At Entergy Mississippi, we think about it all day, every day so that it will be there when you flip that switch. And we don’t just think about it. We study it and keep up with the latest advancements in technology…

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First clean air breaker on Entergy’s system energized in Vicksburg

Leyla Goodsell — Thu, 16 Mar 2023 00:58:00 +0000

When Entergy Mississippi crews installed a high-voltage clean air circuit breaker at one of our Vicksburg, Mississippi substations late last year, two companies reached milestones. The equipment installation was a first for Entergy’s four-state service area and the second U.S. dead-tank BLUE Circuit BreakerTM installment in the country for the manufacturer, Siemens ��ϳԹ��. In our efforts to…

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Entergy Mississippi bets big on small town of Flora

Entergy Team — Fri, 17 Jun 2022 04:53:00 +0000

JACKSON, Miss. – Entergy Mississippi has purchased the former Primos facility and 10 acres, and some 25 adjacent acres in the Flora Industrial Park, and will relocate 44 employees to the site once the property is in service next year. Construction will begin soon on the 102,700-square-foot building, which is being re-designed to accommodate 39 full-time employees and five contract employees.

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Entergy Mississippi to Break Ground on Substation Expansion

Entergy Team — Wed, 05 Jan 2022 07:54:00 +0000

JACKSON, Mississippi – Entergy Mississippi will soon begin construction on a $14-million project aimed at improving reliability and modernizing transmission and substation infrastructure that serves customers in southwest Mississippi. Crews will be working to expand the Franklin 500 kV Substation which will reside on existing land owned by the company in Franklin County, Mississippi.

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2021: A Year in Review

Mississippi Team — Mon, 20 Dec 2021 22:42:00 +0000

As the year draws to a close, our thoughts turn to all things merry and bright as we remember the past and look forward to a new year filled with hope and promise. It was a busy 2021 at Entergy Mississippi, one filled with silver linings and good news. News about growth and economic development in our communities. About building the utility of the future. And about our employees giving back to the…

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Entergy Mississippi Sharpens FOCUS on Service Reliability

Mara Hartmann — Fri, 30 Jul 2021 01:21:00 +0000

Program identifies, addresses under-performing devices With more than 20,000 miles of wire, tens of thousands of poles, dozens of substations and thousands of transformers making up the Entergy Mississippi grid, those who maintain it have a challenging job. That is especially true when you consider the thousands of devices, such as circuit breakers, reclosers, sectionalizers and fuses…

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