SWEDESBORO, N.J. (AP) — A former coal-fired power plant in Latest Jersey will likely be imploded Friday, and its owners are expected to announce plans for a latest clean energy enterprise on the positioning.
Starwood Energy will demolish the previous Logan Generating Plant, with the top of Latest Jersey’s Board of Public Utilities pushing the button that triggers explosives utilized in bringing the structure down.
Logan is one in every of two former coal-fired power plants that the corporate agreed in March to shut down. They were the last two coal-fired power plants operating within the state.
Environmental and public interest groups including the Sierra Club pushed Atlantic City Electric to finish an agreement that locked rate-payers into what the Sierra Club termed above-market electricity rates, and to finish the operation of the plants.
“The implosion will end a decades-long history of polluting air and worsening public health within the Swedesboro and surrounding Gloucester County communities,” the Sierra Club said in a press release.
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The utility estimates that termination of the agreement will save ratepayers $30 million through 2024.
The opposite power plant shuttered under the agreement is the previous Chambers Cogeneration Plant in Carneys Point.
The move comes as Latest Jersey is moving aggressively to adopt clean energy, including its push to be the East Coast leader in offshore wind energy.
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