Originally posted on The Daily Leader
Entergy Mississippi recently announced the completion of its Brookhaven solar station, which will be used to harness the sun’s energy to help fuel Mississippi’s power grid.
Entergy received permission from the Mississippi Public Service Commission to install three 500,000-watt solar panel farms in the state …
Originally Posted on Arkansas News
LITTLE ROCK — Steel production has begun at Big River Steel’s $1.3 billion plant in Mississippi County, the company said Friday.
Big River Steel said in a news release that two units at its “Flex Mill” near Osceola began operating this week as part of a …
BATON ROUGE – Entergy Louisiana, LLC has entered into an agreement to supply power to the proposed Lake Charles LNG project in southwest Louisiana.
Under the contract, Entergy Louisiana could supply up to 255 megawatts of power to the LNG project that is being developed by BG Group with Energy Transfer …
Originally Posted on KPLC
WESTLAKE, LA – In March, Sasol broke ground on the $8.1 billion ethane cracker complex and began Phase 1 of the project. (Read more about it HERE.)
Seven months later, the site has a new foundation and a few structures to make way for the actual ethane cracker.
“The progress …
Originally Posted on DeSoto Times-Tribune
Marco Illig, Executive Vice President of Operations for FEUER Powertrain North America, Inc., in Robinsonville, calls DeSoto County home, making the short commute to the continental headquarters for his global company that cranks out more than three million crank shafts a year in his native Germany …
Originally Posted on The Advocate
The price of oil is sharply down from last year, but if there’s one thing Louisiana has still got, it’s lots of natural gas at a historically low price level.
That is of course good news for the metropolitan areas of the state, including big refineries …
Finding a development-ready industrial site that meets a company’s criteria and its in-service date goals is one of the biggest challenges when companies contact economic development agencies for assistance in relocating their businesses.
Companies are looking for locations with proximity to attractive conditions — highways, railroads, ports, for example — and …
Access to markets can make or break a business, especially in competitive industries where speed to market is critical. That’s why market access is usually a central issue in site selection.
When a site is very close to customers or the transportation that reaches them, access is an obvious asset. But …
