JACKSON, Mississippi — Sierra Club has released its sixth Dirty Truth Report. This year, Mississippi Power scored a 44 out of 100. The report grades utilities across the country based on how much coal they are retiring, how much gas they are planning, and how much renewable energy they are adding.

Nationally, the 76 utilities scored 7 out of 100 in aggregate. This is eight points lower than last year’s report and the lowest score in the report’s history.

Renewable energy remains the cheapest way to generate electricity, while coal and fossil fuels remain expensive and extremely harmful to public health. Despite this, the Dirty Truth Report shows that Mississippi Power is uninterested in investing in sustainable renewable energy. This means higher bills for families, more dangerous pollution, and less reliable energy.

The full report is available on the Dirty Truth website or here.

“The fact that Mississippi Power is the only one of Southern Company’s subsidiaries to maintain its retirements is a condemnation of Southern Company’s reckless strategy to keep coal plants online across the Southeast,” said Amy Kelly, Sierra Club Beyond Coal Campaign Manager. “We must have a consistent and intentional investment in affordable clean energy to bring down energy bills and end the harmful pollution of fossil fuel plants.”

“The Dirty Truth report has once again revealed utilities’ overwhelming failure to plan a phase-out of their expensive and dirty fossil fuel infrastructure, and transition to clean energy,” said Sierra Club Chief Program Officer Holly Bender .

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