Mississippi Wants Answers on Excessive Energy Costs

Consumer Affairs, 9/2/8

Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood has escalated his feud with one of the state’s largest energy providers. As energy prices rose over the course of the summer, Hood charged Entergy Mississippi concealed information about its business practices and subjected consumers to unfairly excessive costs.

“In the wake of sharp increases in Entergy’s fuel-cost adjustments that hit our citizens hard this summer, and because of cases in Louisiana, where Entergy has been ordered to refund millions in overcharges, it is my statutory duty and right to investigate these practices in Mississippi,” Hood said. “We have asked Entergy to provide us information for our investigation, but they have refused.