Mississippi Supreme Court March 15, 2012, 2011-CA-00350-SCT (Sierra Club v. Mississippi Public Service Commission)

DICKINSON, Presiding Justice,

for the Court.

¶ 1. The Mississippi Power Company (“MPC”) applied to the Mississippi Public Service Commission (“Commission”) for permission to proceed with construction of a new power generation facility that would employ a new technology not in operation anywhere else in the United States, and to begin assessing the cost of construction (capped at $2.