SUGAR LAND--June 30, 2017--Researched by Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas)--Southern Company (NYSE:SO) (Atlanta, Georgia) and its subsidiary, Mississippi Power Company (Gulfport, Mississippi), have suspended work on the costly Kemper County coal gasification project power facility, setting the stage for a possible settlement to relicense the plant as a natural-gas-only facility.

Within this article: Status update on the Kemper County integrated gasification combined-cycle (IGCC) project.