CHARLES CITY COUNTY, Va. (CBS19 NEWS) — An influence plant and pipeline undertaking that will have impacted a part of this space has been canceled.
On Thursday, Chickahominy Energy, LLC introduced that it has terminated a plan for a 1,600 megawatt, $1.64 billion gas-fired energy plant that was deliberate for Charles Metropolis County.
A part of this undertaking was additionally the Chickahominy Pipeline, LLC that will have transported pure gasoline from an current Transco’s pipeline in Charlottesville, throughout Louisa County and different counties, to Charles Metropolis County.
In all, the deliberate pipeline would have been greater than 80 miles lengthy.
In February, Chickahominy Energy was notified that the Federal Power Regulatory Fee had upheld a call to take away the pipeline from a allowing queue.
In keeping with a launch at the moment, different initiatives already within the queue had been nearer to being operational and wanted extra consideration.
Consequently, Chickahominy “paused” its pipeline efforts.
Now the ability plant has been canceled as properly.
Chickahominy says the plant would have been one of many largest gasoline crops in Virginia.