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New Brunswick Gives Green Light for 500 MW Gas Plant, Subject to Conditions
The 500-megawatt project must follow emergency, monitoring and fuel-use rules, and it will share information with Elsipogtog First Nation.
- On Friday, the New Brunswick Environment Department granted conditional approval for the Renewables Integration Grid Security project, a 500-megawatt natural gas and diesel plant designed to prevent rotating electricity blackouts within two years.
- NB Power signed a 25-year contract with Missouri-based ProEnergy to address the utility's concerns about meeting sharp power demand increases by 2028 and avoiding rolling blackouts.
- The facility will feature 10 refurbished jet-engine turbines capable of producing up to 500 megawatts, operating primarily as synchronous condensers with gas burning limited to a maximum 17 per cent of the time.
- Environment Minister Gilles LePage announced 45 mandatory conditions including air and water-quality monitoring and emergency planning; his department could impose timelines for fixes or shut the project down if conditions go unmet.
- The Energy and Utilities Board estimates the project will cost at least $3.5 billion over the 25-year contract, though NB Power refused to disclose actual costs; Nova Scotia's energy operator secured a 10-year agreement to purchase 100 megawatts, yet local residents remain concerned about water resources and ecosystem disruption.
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New Brunswick gives green light for 500 MW gas plant, subject to conditions
FREDERICTON - The New Brunswick government on Friday granted conditional approval for a 500-megawatt natural gas plant that officials say is crucial to avoid rolling electricity blackouts within the next
·Toronto, Canada
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The gas and diesel plant that will be built in the Tantramar region gets the green light of Susan Holt's provincial government's environmental impact assessment process. However, the government imposes 45 conditions on the US company Proenergy to complete the project.
The company entered into a 25-year contract with ProEnergy, a company based in Missouri. The post New Brunswick gives its green light to a 500 MW gas plant project appeared first on Les Affaires.
·Montreal, Canada
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