The division shall be tasked with developing, implementing and refining over time the Mississippi Energy Plan. The Mississippi Energy Plan shall include, but not be limited to the following:
Efforts to promote Mississippi as a leader in energy development, job creation and research;
Plans to encourage the safe and responsible exploration and extraction of the state's natural resources;
Plans to add value and sustain resources through advances in manufacturing, conversion, and processing related to energy consumption and generation;
Expanding energy capacity and realizing savings through energy efficiency;
Encourage investments in the energy infrastructure of transmission and distribution to maintain the state's leadership in this area;
Plans to ensure the state competes in technology-based energy economic development, research and development, and commercialization;
Prepare a twenty-first century energy workforce;
Statewide forecasts of energy needs and deficiencies;
A program for directing the expenditure of local, state and federal energy funds in conformity with the statewide plan;
Statewide implementation program, including a schedule of improvement programs, an operations program, a financial plan, necessary policies and legislation for implementation of the energy plan; and
Financial impact statement.