GULFPORT, MS – Mississippi Power’s Board of Directors has named Edward Day VI as president and CEO, replacing Anthony Topazi. Topazi will become executive vice president and chief operating officer of Southern Company, responsible for Southern Company Generation, Southern Power and Southern Company Transmission in Birmingham. Both moves are effective August 13, 2010.

Day will become Mississippi Power’s 11th president in its 85-year history. He comes to his new position from Southern Company Generation, where he was executive vice president, responsible for Southern Company’s Engineering and Construction. His responsibilities at Southern Company Generation included engineering, procurement and construction of new generation (gas, coal gasification, biomass and nuclear construction oversight), environmental and retrofit projects across the Southern Company fleet of fossil and hydro generating plants and various technical support functions.

Day joined Southern Company Services in 1983 as an engineer in the Hatch Nuclear Support Project. He progressed through positions of increasing responsibility before being named engineering group supervisor, Mechanical Design, in 1990. He was named assistant to the executive vice president, Engineering, in 1992. Four years later, he was named wholesale business development manager for Southern Wholesale Energy. In 1998, he was promoted to director, Business Development and to vice president, Business Development, in 2001. He assumed his role as executive vice president, Southern Company Generation, in May 2003.
 
 Day holds a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Alabama and an MBA from Samford University. He is a 2004 graduate of the Advanced Management Program at Harvard University. Day currently serves on the Board of Directors of Junior Achievement of Central Alabama and United Way of Central Alabama.

Mississippi Power, a Southern Company subsidiary, serves more than 193,000 customers in 23 southeast Mississippi counties.