§ 57-39-11. Mississippi Energy Plan

MS Code § 57-39-11 (2019) (N/A)
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(a) Efforts to promote Mississippi as a leader in energy development, job creation and research;

(b) Plans to encourage the safe and responsible exploration and extraction of the state’s natural resources;

(c) Plans to add value and sustain resources through advances in manufacturing, conversion, and processing related to energy consumption and generation;

(d) Expanding energy capacity and realizing savings through energy efficiency;

(e) Encourage investments in the energy infrastructure of transmission and distribution to maintain the state’s leadership in this area;

(f) Plans to ensure the state competes in technology-based energy economic development, research and development, and commercialization;

(g) Prepare a twenty-first century energy workforce;

(h) Statewide forecasts of energy needs and deficiencies;

(i) A program for directing the expenditure of local, state and federal energy funds in conformity with the statewide plan;

(j) Statewide implementation program, including a schedule of improvement programs, an operations program, a financial plan, necessary policies and legislation for implementation of the energy plan; and

(k) Financial impact statement.