TOWN OF NEWBURGH – Danskammer Energy, LLC, Wednesday, filed its Article 10 application with the State Public Service Commission to repower and modernize the Danskammer Energy Center in the Town of Newburgh.
The company is proposing construction of a new gas-fired facility on the same site.
“We are confident that our project will not only improve New York’s air and water quality, but will also support the state’s green energy goals under the Community Leadership and Climate Protection Act, protect jobs in an economically distressed community and help secure the state’s energy future,” said company Vice President of Public Affairs Michelle Hook.
She said independent studies included in the Article 10 submission “show a repowering of Danskammer would dramatically lower regional emissions by 463 tons of NOx and 437 tons of sulfur dioxide.”
Those chemicals are the cause of respiratory and other health issues.
She also said studies “indicate an annual reduction of 332,000 tons of CO2 emissions across the Northeast, the equivalent of taking more than 63,000 cars off the road. Over a decade that’s a reduction of 3.3 million tons of CO2.”
The new facility is estimated to cost $450 million to $550 million to construction and take 2 ½ years to complete.
