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Brockton Clean Energy has been approved by the appropriate state authorities, including the Department of Environmental Protection, the Massachusetts Environmental Policy Act Office and the Massachusetts Energy Facilities Siting Board, which motioned 8-0 to approve the development. For the past year, our engineers and project managers have been answering technical questions from the department heads from City Hall, community and business leaders at public events around Brockton and anyone who walks into our Information Office at 90 Main Street. The Mayor and City Council members have said they will now take their cue from the people of Brockton. If you understand what ...
Senate climate bill boosts natural gas outlook
By Staff Reuters November 3, 2009 WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The natural gas industry looks to be a big winner in U.S. Senate legislation to tackle climate change on expectations it would lead to more gas demand and a new wave of gas-fired power plants. After getting few breaks in the House of Representatives climate bill earlier this year, the industry stepped up lobbying as the Senate wrote its version. The industry won the support of lawmakers as it trumpeted gas as abundant, cleaner than coal and more reliable than wind and solar as a constant energy source to cut greenhouse gases. The Senate bill would require ...
Somerset’s NRG power plant closing down
By Marc Munroe Dion Herald News November 5, 2009 SOMERSET — Forty employees will lose their jobs when NRG Energy shuts down its circa 1925 power plant on Riverside Avenue in January. According to NRG spokesman David Knox, the company will deactivate the plant on Jan. 2. “Market forces are part of the reason,” Knox said. “Also, the requirement that we close down or repower kicks in in September of 2010. We are obeying that.” Knox said NRG will continue to move ahead with plans to convert the plant from burning coal to a plasma gasification process, which breaks down coal into its component parts ...
America’s Natural Gas Revolution
By Daniel Yergin and Robert Ineson Wall Street Journal November 3, 2009 The biggest energy innovation of the decade is natural gas—more specifically what is called "unconventional" natural gas. Some call it a revolution. Yet the natural gas revolution has unfolded with no great fanfare, no grand opening ceremony, no ribbon cutting. It just crept up. In 1990, unconventional gas—from shales, coal-bed methane and so-called "tight" formations—was about 10% of total U.S. production. Today it is around 40%, and growing fast, with shale gas by far the biggest part. The potential of this "shale gale" only really became clear around 2007. In Washington, D.C., the ...
Energy Facilities Siting Board – Final Decision
Energy Facilities Siting Board - Final Decision (APPROVED) Pursuant to G.L. c. 164, § 69J¼, the Energy Facilities Siting Board (Siting Board‖ or "EFSB") hereby APPROVES, subject to the conditions set forth below, the petition of Brockton Power Company LLC ("Brockton Power") for approval to construct a 350 megawatt (MW) combined-cycle, dual fuel (natural gas and ultra-low sulfur diesel oil (ULSD)) electric generating facility (the "proposed facility" or "project") in Brockton, Massachusetts. Pursuant to G.L. c. 164, § 72, the Siting Board also APPROVES the petition of Brockton Power to construct an electricity transmission line connecting the proposed facility to the ...
Economic Assessment of Proposed Brockton Clean Energy Facility
Click here for the Economic Assessment Report [caption id="attachment_303" align="alignleft" width="222" caption="Final Economic Assessment Report"][/caption] EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Economic Impacts – Citywide & Regional The construction and eventual operation of the proposed Brockton Clean Energy facility (“the Project”) will create economic impacts for the city and the larger 3-county regional ‘Metro South’ economy which Brockton is a part of. The MetroSouth region consists of Bristol, Norfolk, and Plymouth counties. Plymouth County is where Brockton is located. Economic impacts include the direct spending associated with the Construction Phase and Operations and Maintenance & Phase activities, subsequent indirect impacts from cycles of businesses making purchases of local supplies/services, ...
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