Power plants and the grid in Mississippi
Mississippi has 64 power plants with 16.5 GW of capacity, natural gas the largest share at 12.3 GW. The map shows 11 data centers in Mississippi. Its interconnection queue holds 88 active requests for 16.1 GW.
Capacity by fuel
64 power plants with 16.5 GW of capacity, planned generators left out.
- Natural gas: 12.3 GW from 28 plants (75%)
- Solar: 1.9 GW from 26 plants (11%)
- Nuclear: 1.4 GW from 1 plant (8%)
- Coal: 440 MW from 1 plant (3%)
- Biomass: 302 MW from 5 plants (2%)
- Wind: 185 MW from 1 plant (1%)
- Oil: 9 MW from 1 plant (under 1%)
- Other: 1 MW from 1 plant (under 1%)
Largest plants
- Victor J Daniel Jr: Natural gas, 2.1 GW
- Grand Gulf: Nuclear, 1.4 GW
- Magnolia Power Plant: Natural gas, 918 MW
- Batesville Generation Facility: Natural gas, 858 MW
- Choctaw County: Natural gas, 781 MW
- TVA Southaven Combined Cycle: Natural gas, 780 MW
- Caledonia: Natural gas, 765 MW
- Jack Watson: Natural gas, 754 MW
- Quantum Choctaw Power LLC: Natural gas, 710 MW
- Ratcliffe: Natural gas, 704 MW
Largest plants near Jackson
- Hinds Energy Facility: Natural gas, 485 MW, 10 km away
- Ragsdale Solar LLC: Solar, 100 MW, 33 km away
- Mississippi Baptist Medical Center: Natural gas, 4 MW, 2 km away
- Lineage MS: Solar, 1 MW, 6 km away
Planned and under construction
20 generators planned, under construction or testing, 4.2 GW in all, not counted above.
- Natural gas: 2.6 GW
- Solar: 1.6 GW
- Hydro: 25 MW
Grid operators
- MISO (ISO or RTO): 28 plants
- Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA): 21 plants
- Southern Company (SOCO): 15 plants
Data centers
11 data center sites on the map.
- Madison County: 6 sites
- Operators with the most sites: Amazon (3), Amazon Web Services (3), AVAIO Digital Partners (1), Compass Datacenters (1), Netdoor (1), U.S. NetworX (1), xAI (1)
Interconnection queue
88 active requests to connect 16.1 GW of new generation and storage, and 5 suspended requests, from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory's Queued Up data.
- Solar: 9.9 GW in 65 requests
- Natural gas: 3.3 GW in 6 requests
- Battery storage: 1.9 GW in 12 requests
- Wind: 947 MW in 5 requests
Sources
Power plants: EIA-860M (US); NRCan NACEI (Canada, Mexico); WRI GPPD (Mexico); OpenStreetMap via Geofabrik (Canada, Mexico gap fill); USGS USWTDB/USPVDB; EPA eGRID; Natural Earth admin-1; HIFLD control areas; location attributes from WorldPop (R2025A), Global Solar Atlas PVOUT, Global Wind Atlas 4, USFS Wildfire Hazard Potential, the USGS National Seismic Hazard Model and the previous publish's lines and substations; water distances from OpenStreetMap via Geofabrik; gas distances and county queue from the previous publish's EIA gas pipelines and LBNL Queued Up requests; nearest city from Natural Earth populated places; cooling degree days from NOAA NCEI nClimDiv county normals; elevation and slope from the Copernicus DEM GLO-30 (ESA, via AWS Open Data); water stress from WRI Aqueduct 4.0; ozone nonattainment from the EPA Green Book; drought from the U.S. Drought Monitor; tribal land from US Census TIGER/Line. License: ODbL (derivative database; EIA content is public domain, NRCan OGL-Canada, WRI GPPD CC BY 4.0; location attributes from WorldPop, Global Solar Atlas, Global Wind Atlas, LBNL Queued Up and WRI Aqueduct CC BY 4.0, USFS, USGS, EIA, NOAA, EPA, US Census and Natural Earth public domain, Copernicus DEM GLO-30 © DLR e.V. and Airbus Defence and Space GmbH, the U.S. Drought Monitor courtesy of NDMC)
Places gazetteer (cities, airports, regions): Natural Earth populated places; OurAirports; Natural Earth admin-1; Wattlas curated places. License: Public domain
Data centers: Epoch AI (CC BY); OpenStreetMap via the public Overpass API (ODbL, © OpenStreetMap contributors); Ringmast4r Global-Data-Center-Map (custom permissive license, attribution required); location attributes from WorldPop (R2025A), Global Solar Atlas PVOUT, Global Wind Atlas 4, USFS Wildfire Hazard Potential, the USGS National Seismic Hazard Model and the previous publish's lines and substations; gas distances and county queue from the previous publish's EIA gas pipelines and LBNL Queued Up requests; nearest city from Natural Earth populated places; generation within 20 km from the previous publish's plants; cooling degree days from NOAA NCEI nClimDiv county normals; elevation and slope from the Copernicus DEM GLO-30 (ESA, via AWS Open Data); water stress from WRI Aqueduct 4.0; ozone nonattainment from the EPA Green Book; drought from the U.S. Drought Monitor; tribal land from US Census TIGER/Line. License: CC BY; ODbL; custom permissive; WRI Aqueduct CC BY 4.0; USFS, USGS, EIA, NOAA, EPA, US Census and Natural Earth public domain; Copernicus DEM GLO-30 © DLR e.V. and Airbus Defence and Space GmbH; the U.S. Drought Monitor courtesy of NDMC
Interconnection queue requests: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and GridTracker, "Queued Up". License: CC BY 4.0
States and provinces (simplified polygons): Natural Earth 10m admin-1. License: Public domain