Canceled Conn. Gas-Fired Plant Blocking Battery Plant at Same Site

Here's a story in the karma-is-a-boomerang department... In July 2019, the Connecticut Siting Council approved the Killingly Energy Center gas-fired power plant project after initially rejecting it (see Connecticut Approves New Natgas-Fired Electric Plant in Killingly). The Killingly project would have built a 650-megawatt gas-fired plant in eastern Connecticut. The Siting Council recognized that some 6,000 megawatts of older, less-efficient power plants in the region are retiring, and without new plants coming online to provide electricity, Connecticut and its neighboring New England states will begin to experience rolling blackouts without new supplies of electricity. Yet the radical left blocked Killingly with a flurry of lawsuits and regulatory challenges. Now, an Israeli firm wants to build a battery farm at the same location but can't because the site was authorized to build the gas-fired plant, and the authorization (permit/certificate) for Killingly is still valid and not rescinded.

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