Hartford Business Journal

www.HartfordBusiness.com • September 10, 2018 • Hartford Business Journal 11 FOCUS Quality Construction + Butler Manufacturing = Repeat Customers www.borghesibuilding.com © 2011 BlueScope Buildings North America, Inc. All rights reserved. Butler Manufacturing™ is a division of BlueScope Buildings North America, Inc. 2155 East Main Street • Torrington, Connecticut 06790 Wittmann Battenfeld, Torrington, CT | 2000 | 37,000 sq. ft. 2006 | Addition — 14,400 sq. ft. 2013 | Addition — 18,900 sq. ft. Contact us at 860-482-7613 or visit us on the web. WE PROVIDE CT BUSINESS LEADERS WITH THE INFORMATION THEY NEED TO SUCCESSFULLY RUN THEIR BUSINESS. ARE YOU IN THE KNOW? SUBSCRIBE BY GOING TO WWW.HARTFORDBUSINESS.COM CLICK ON "SUBSCRIBE" a moratorium on fracking waste since 2014, which will remain in effect until DEEP issues the regulations, but Food & Water Watch argues that certain po- tential toxins are permitted under the current reg- ulatory scheme. The group also worries there may be loopholes in whatever rules DEEP puts forth. CCM has urged DEEP and the legislature to regulate fracking waste statewide, rather than leave it to 169 cities and towns. But the lobbyist for municipalities says DEEP's delay and Food & Water Watch's advocacy spurred it to act. One key difference between the or- dinances is how broadly they define waste. CCM's ordinance prohibits the col- lection, receipt, storage, treatment, transfer or disposal of any waste from fracking, but allows the use of oil and gas products for road or driveway resurfacing and manufac- turing processes, as long as they are approved for use by DEEP. Joe DeLong, executive Director, connecticut conference of MunicipaLities fuel generation in Connecticut to be "at risk" for retirement in the com- ing years — plants that were built between the 1950s and 1970s. Other major retirements in the re- gion include the 680-megawatt Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station in 2019 and the 2,000-megawatt Mystic Generating Station in 2022, both in Massachusetts. A developer's outlook Competitive Power Ventures, which managed the Towantic project, hasn't announced any more New England power plants, but Presi- dent Sherman Knight said the market is strong. "We're always looking at New England," said Knight, whose company has five other natu- ral gas plants in operation or under development, plus a wind farm in Oklahoma. "I think there's probably additional generation that needs to be built within New England." Exactly who does it and where remains to be seen. Knight said some things give him pause, including efforts in some states, including Connecticut, to provide more financial support to nuclear plants through the use of out-of-market, long-term contracts or other structures. Meanwhile, growth in renewable and clean power is blunting, at least to some extent, the need for new power plants, and there are concerns about New England relying too heav- ily on natural gas, which currently generates about half of the region's power. That's a potential problem because if there was a major service interruption or swing in prices, ISO- NE would have limited resources or options to respond. Dolan says it remains an open question how big a role renewables will play in replacing power plants that retire into the next decade. "We're starting to see a big wave of these resources being contracted for, that will start to enter the market over the next several years," Dolan said. "I think that is going to certainly dampen the amount of new investment [from power plant developers]." Dan Dolan, President, New England Power Generators Association Continued on next page >> Connecticut's electricity grid contributions Each year, in exchange for annual payments, New England power plants pledge to make their facilities available to the New England electric grid three years out, which helps grid operator ISO-NE plan for future needs. Lately, Connecticut-based plants have pledged greater amounts of power, in part because new power plants have begun operations in the state. Source: ISO-NE 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 0 2,000 4,000 6,000 8,000 10,000 12,000 CT-based megawatts pledged

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