{"id":277760,"date":"2010-02-04T07:52:20","date_gmt":"2010-02-04T12:52:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.earthportal.org\/news\/?p=3105"},"modified":"2010-02-04T07:52:20","modified_gmt":"2010-02-04T12:52:20","slug":"nrg-strikes-deal-in-del-over-indian-river-plant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/277760","title":{"rendered":"NRG strikes deal in Del. over Indian River plant"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>Greenwire<\/a>: NRG Energy Inc., one of Delaware’s<\/a> largest industrial polluters, struck a deal with state regulators that will require it to shut down three of its four Indian River Power Plant generating units by 2013 in exchange for being allowed to continue to use one of its turbines without air emissions scrubbers for three more years.<\/p>\n

A 2009 court order had mandated the shutdown of two of the plant’s turbines by 2011 and required the scrubber installation on a third turbine.<\/p>\n

In return for being allowed to operate the third unit for three more years without the added cost of scrubber installation, NRG agreed to shutter the third unit in 2013 and focus on modernizing its newest turbine, which would be the only one operating after that date.<\/p>\n

The old generating units withdraw thousands of gallons of cooling water — as well as fish and crab larvae — each day. The new unit operates with a cooling tower, so large volumes of water won’t need to be extracted daily from area waterways.<\/p>\n

The closure of the three older generating units is also expected to improve the air quality in an area that one study concluded had a 30 percent higher incidence rate for lung cancer. Researchers still have reached no firm conclusions about the cause of the apparent cancer cluster.<\/p>\n

The closures are “probably going to be one of the greatest improvements in the health of the Inland Bays in 50 years,” said Collin O’Mara, secretary of the state Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control (Molly Murray, Wilmington News Journal<\/em><\/a>, Feb. 2). – DFM<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Greenwire: NRG Energy Inc., one of Delaware’s largest industrial polluters, struck a deal with state regulators that will require it to shut down three of its four Indian River Power Plant generating units by 2013 in exchange for being allowed to continue to use one of its turbines without air emissions scrubbers for three more […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4055,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-277760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4055"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=277760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277760\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}