39 Miss. Code. R. 1-29- 108
The Commission recognizes that resource planning involves the use and analysis of confidential commercial and financial information and trade secrets. The protection of confidential information benefits utility customers by ensuring that the rates they pay are not unnecessarily increased due to the dissemination of market-sensitive data. Therefore, the public interest requires that confidential commercial and financial information and trade secrets of public utilities be protected to the full extent of the law.
Within thirty (30) days of the effective date of this Rule, each electric utility subject to the Rule shall submit to the Commission a non-disclosure agreement for the Commission to maintain on file. Any interested party may obtain a copy of the electric utility's confidential IRP work papers upon filing with the Commission and serving upon the utility an executed copy of the relevant utility non-disclosure agreement. Interested parties may execute such non-disclosure agreements at any time once an electric utility has filed its Notice of IRP Cycle, and are encouraged to do so in advance of the stakeholder technical conference(s) required by this Rule.
39 Miss. Code. R. 1-29- 108