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What's in your bill today?

In Mississippi, almost every dollar on your electric bill buys actual electricity — generation and delivery. There's no subsidy scheme forcing politically-favored power onto the grid, and no stack of program surcharges riding along. That's the difference between a state that lets the market deliver power and one that legislates it. Here's roughly how your July bill splits.

Mississippi vs. the high-cost states

Mississippi vs. the rest of America

Mississippi has stayed below the national average every single year — and that advantage is one of our greatest economic assets, pulling jobs and investment here. As national demand surges and other states push their prices higher, keeping our power cheap and reliable takes the right policy choices. The gap is the advantage — and the goal is to maintain it.

The road to higher bills

High-cost states didn't get expensive by accident. They legislated it — subsidies, mandates, and forced retirements of reliable plants, each one added to the bill. Here's what the same monthly bill looks like as you travel that road:

Cheap power is how Mississippi wins

Data centers, factories and manufacturers shop for one thing above all: abundant, affordable, reliable electricity. PJM-region states in the Northeast are watching prices soar as demand outruns mandate-constrained supply. Mississippi can win that investment — if it protects what makes it attractive.

The principle is simple: affordable, reliable energy is an economic asset. The fastest way to throw it away is to copy the policies of the states families are leaving.

The data-center boom — welcome it without raising your bill

AI and data centers are driving the fastest jump in power demand in decades — U.S. data-center use was about 4% of all electricity in 2024 and is expected to more than double by 2030 (IEA). Mississippi is already winning that investment: Amazon alone is putting up to $25 billion into data centers across the state. The real question is who pays for the new power — Entergy Mississippi is building an estimated $2–3 billion of new generation to serve them.

Where Mississippi's electricity comes from

Why Mississippi stays affordable

• No subsidy schemes. Mississippi doesn't prop up favored suppliers or force utilities to hit politically-set targets, so it avoids the surcharges and stranded-asset costs that inflate bills elsewhere.
• Abundant, reliable baseload. Plentiful natural gas and the Grand Gulf nuclear station provide always-on power — not weather-dependent generation that needs expensive backup.
• No state carbon tax. Mississippi hasn't joined a cap-and-trade scheme, so there's no carbon charge passed through to ratepayers the way there is in California and the Northeast.
• Regulation that lets supply grow. Utilities can build new generation to meet rising demand — like Entergy Mississippi's first new power plant in 50 years — instead of being blocked by mandates.

How we calculate this

We estimate your electricity use from your home's square footage and age, how you heat, and the month — older homes use more power per square foot, and summer air-conditioning and winter electric heat push usage above spring and fall. We multiply by Mississippi's average residential price, then show what the same electricity would cost under other states' prices, so the difference reflects energy policy, not how much power you use.