Two Southern Co. subsidiaries are grappling with cost pressures, possible start-up delays and criticism of its management at two of the largest power-related construction projects now under way in the U.S.
Mississippi Power's 582-MW integrated gasification combined-cycle project in Kemper County, Miss., will be the nation's first IGCC plant to capture most of the carbon dioxide generated during gasification; Georgia Power's two-unit, 2,200-Mw expansion of the Vogtle nuclear station in Burke County, Ga., involves the first new nuclear units approved by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission in more than 30 years.