Posted by Ed on August 1, 2007, 1:13 am Montgomery Energy Partners announced that the 76-megawatt, natural- Joe Fitzpatrick, CEO of DG Clean Power, a partner in the project, The full project is expected to cost $100 million. Fitzpatrick said there is an existing air-quality permit connected Montgomery Energy Partners is the same company proposing a $200 Fitzpatrick said that although there is no payment-in-lieu-of taxes, The last plant built in the Merrimack Valley was Lowell's L'Energia According to Fitzpatrick, ISO New England reached the demand "Montgomery Energy is committed to repowering and building these two REPAIR THE INFRASTRUCTURE OF THE GRID and these polluters will not
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City power plant could be online next year
By Jennifer Amy Myers, jmyers@lowellsun.com
Article Last Updated: 07/31/2007 11:34:33 AM EDT
LOWELL -- The Tanner Street L'Energia power plant that has sat
dormant for three years is expected to be up and running again next
year.
gas-fired facility could be online to meet the region's peak power
demands by the summer of 2008.
said the company is under agreement to repower the existing
facility, and has plans to expand on 4 1/2 acres of land at Tanner
and Lincoln streets, owned by Lowell Iron and Steel, to construct an
additional 95-megawatt, gas-turbine plant.
to the L'Energia plant that is being reviewed and updated by the
Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection, and that the
developer is working to finalize a system-impact study with the New
England ISO, operator of the region's bulk power system.
million, 348-megawatt, natural-gas-fired
peaking plant for 13.8 acres off Billerica Avenue in Billerica. The
project is currently under review with the state's Energy Facilities
Siting Board as part of an extensive permitting process.
"We are not talking Billerica-sized here," Fitzpatrick said of the
Lowell plant and expansion. "We expect the sequence of events to be
repowering L'Energia in the summer of 2008, Billerica in 2009 and
the expansion of Lowell sometime in 2010."
or PILOT, proposal on the table in Lowell, he anticipates that at
full build-out, the site could generate $600,000 to $700,000 in
annual revenue for the city.
facility, constructed 20 years ago. Since that time, the need for
additional power in the densely populated region has skyrocketed.
projected for 2008 last October.
facilities to produce enough power for 500,000 homes with the state-
of-the-art emission-controls technology" said Montgomery Energy's
President Richard Wagner. "With the declining reserve margins in the
New England Region, having new, efficient generation helps in
stabilizing the prices to the consumer."
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If you take the time to read this article you will see the same
familiar Public Relations ploy set out by the Merrimack Valley's New
Hero's, "Montgomery Energy."
Although the article is well written by the reporter, the Company
refuses to speak about any of the Harmful Effects from these so-
called gas fired peaking plants.
Note:
An existing air-quality permit. Easier to renew?
The developer is working to finalize a system-impact study with the
New England ISO, operator of the region's bulk power system. We are
still hunting for many reports on the Billerica Proposal!
Billerica: an extensive permitting process (The Billerica Watchers
Group will find out)
"We are not talking Billerica-sized here," Fitzpatrick said of the
Lowell plant and expansion. "We expect the sequence of events to be
repowering L'Energia in the summer of 2008, Billerica in 2009 and
the expansion of Lowell sometime in 2010."
Let's add up the proposed pollution from 76 megawatt + 95 megawatt +
348-megawatt!!!
Let's hope not! This disastrous chain of events will take place just
as the Clean Air and Clean Water act of 1997 begins to take hold in
June of 2008! If enforced and we may have to reverse the pollution
these fossil fueled plants spew into the Merrimack Valley then we
may find ourselves peddling bicycles because we will not be able to
afford the surcharges, taxes or what ever way our State, County,
City or Town decides to pay for their mistakes!
The last plant built in the Merrimack Valley was Lowell's L'Energia
facility, constructed 20 years ago. Since that time, the need for
additional power in the densely populated region has skyrocketed.
From what I understand, the population is gong down and many people
are fleeing this state and I can see why!
The site could generate $600,000 to $700,000 in annual revenue for
the city. Love that word COULD!
The Big Lies, "The state-of-the-art emission-controls technology"
and" efficient generation helps in stabilizing the prices to the
consumer." Read the laws and see how the term economic feasibility
plays into those quotes!!!
be needed, IF THEY REALLY ARE NEEDED!
Didn't a song come out years ago with the lyrics, "It's the same old
story, the same old song and dance my friend."
It's old, just like the way these companies do business and generate
their power!!!
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