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Former Southern CEO gets a plant
Former Southern Co. chief executive and chairman David Ratcliffe has a new power plant in his name.
The company's under-construction coal gasification plant in Mississippi is now officially Plant Ratcliffe, company CEO Tom Fanning announced Wednesday.
The plant, in Kemper County near the Alabama border, will convert lignite coal into a cleaner-burning gas, which will then be burned to make power.
The technology can remove carbon dioxide from emissions, and would allow the company to continue burning coal even with federal carbon limits.
Fanning said the company named the plant for Ratcliffe "in honor of David's visionary leadership in development of this technology, on behalf of the company and of our nation's future."
