Formed in 1925, Mississippi Power is an investor-owned electric utility with 456 preferred stockholders. All of their common stock is held by Southern Company, which is owned by 195,261 registered stockholders, of which more than 5,300 live in Mississippi. Mississippi Power has 1,253 employees.  The company's headquarters is in Gulfport.

Our Service Territory and Customers
Mississippi Power directly serves at retail, most of the cities, towns, and communities within the 23 counties of southeast Mississippi.

They also serve six REA-financed electric cooperatives (Coast EPA, Singing River EPA, Southern Pine EPA, Dixie EPA, Pearl River EPA and East Mississippi EPA) and one municipality (City of Collins) with wholesale electric power which, in turn, they resell to customers in southeast Mississippi.
Mississippi Power's customers fit within three classes:
Residential, Commercial and Industrial.
Although the numbers fluctuate as customers move in and out of Mississippi Power's service territory, approximately 82.5 percent of its customers are residential, 17.1 percent are commercial and .2 percent industrial.

Mississippi Power handles customer transactions and maintenance of its electrical system through three divisions: Coast, Pine Belt, and Meridian. 

Customers by Division Number % of Total
Coast Division      96,411 49.85%
Pine Belt Division         59,296 30.66%
Meridian Division 37,701 19.49%

To deliver electricity to its customers, Mississippi Power maintains 155 substations, more than 2,000 miles of transmission lines, 6,000 miles of primary overhead lines, and 400 miles of primary underground lines.
The company is also connected to its sister companies, Alabama Power, Georgia Power, Gulf Power and Savannah Electric — all owned by Southern Company.
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