Article: Phillips Coal Company announces new lignite mine, power plant in Mississippi; $500 million project will provide Electricity for Tennessee Valley Authority.

BARTLESVILLE, Okla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 16, 1996-- Phillips Coal Company (PCC), a subsidiary of Phillips Petroleum Company (NYSE: P), announced today that it has reached tentative agreement with the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) to develop, in partnership with CRSS-Tractebel, a 400-megawatt power plant, with fuel supplied by a 3 million-ton-per-year lignite mine, in northeast Mississippi near Ackerman. TVA will be the sole customer for the electricity.

Construction of the $500 million project is scheduled to begin in early 1998, with startup in 2000. It will be PCC's fourth mine, and the first time it has played a developer's role in a power project. PCC owns ...

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