Faced with difficult market conditions in southwestern Connecticut NRG Energy will remove its Norwalk Harbor Station on Manresa Island from the ISO New England wholesale market and deactivate the station, effective June 1.
MERIDEN — NRG has informed the city that it is withdrawing plans to complete a 544-watt gas-fired power plant in the city’s northwest corner. NRG provided the city of Meriden with a Notice of Abandonment on April 3, 2012 under the Property Tax Payment Settlement Agreement, said NRG spokesman David Gaier. For more on this
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NRG Energy, owner of the Montville Station power plant, is pushing ahead with its 4-year-old proposal to partly convert the plant from natural gas and oil to boilers powered by bio-mass fuel, the Hartford Courant reports. Click on this Environmental Headline for more on this story.
Power-plant operator NRG Energy Inc., with generating stations in Connecticut, has acquired Solar Power Partners, a leading developer of commercial and industrial distributed solar projects in Connecticut and five other states, Puerto Rico and Canada. For more on this story, visit: NRG buys Solar Power Partners | Hartford Business.
NRG Energy Inc, which operates four power plants in Connecticut, has agreed to acquire Energy Plus Holdings LLC, a Philadelphia-based retail electricity and natural gas provider, in a $190 million all-cash deal.
A malfunction in the oil tank ventilation system at an NRG power plant in Norwalk leaked a small amount of oil to leak into the Sound.
NRG has announced that it is “‘leading the way as sponsor of the ‘Great River Cleanup’” The company announced that the Connecticut River Watershed Council needs a few thousand volunteers for the Oct. 2, 2010, Source to Sea Cleanup. This year, NRG Energy again leads the way as title sponsor, with many of its Connecticut
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Coal ash buried at the NRG Energy power plant property is continuing to pollute groundwater and soil with arsenic, beryllium and other heavy metals at levels higher than those considered safe, a study released Thursday by three environmental groups shows.
The NRG plant was the only Connecticut site among 39 listed in the report from the Environmental Integrity Project, Earthjustice and the Sierra Club about the dangers of coal ash wastes to groundwater and surface water supplies, Judy Benson of The Day reports.
