"Had no idea a huge gas power plant was in the works in Newark, one of Delaware’s most densely populated cities?  You’re not the only one!  

The news has been kept very tightly under wraps by the City of Newark, the company proposing the power plant and the University of Delaware. The City of Newark Council voted to keep details of this proposed project private and have been in secret communications with Data Centers LLC, the West Chester, PA company behind the project, for over a year. In fact, the only reason we even know about this project now is that several private citizens became aware of the project and shared this info with the larger community!

Because of this secrecy, there’s plenty of details we don’t know about this project. What we do know is that Data Centers, LLC is proposing to build a 900,000-square-foot structure for housing computer servers, which would be run by energy created onsite via a natural gas fueled turbine system. The facility will create way more more energy than it needs with plans to sell this excess energy to the Delaware Municipal Electric Corp (DMEC, the supplier of power to Newark’s city-owned utility). DEMC and Data Centers, LLC already have an agreement in place!

To offer some perspective, it’s important to note that the Hope Creek Thermal Nuclear Power Plant generates a little over 1000 megawatts–while this proposed plant will produce as much as one quarter that amount (248 megawatts)–and the proposed location is right in the middle of a residential town with a population of 30,000. It’s also important to note that the current city of Newark electric load is only 92 megawatts.

So far, this has all been discussed among the City Council, DMEC, Delaware’s Economic Development Office and the University of Delaware with no oversight, citizen involvement or awareness!"

The City of Newark claims that the closest home to the plant is at least half a mile away. In reality, there is a children's park less than 250 feet away from the proposed plant site, and dozens of homes within the 1/2 mile radius. The City of Newark has kept this under wraps for so long for a reason, and it's time to bring this to light and stop it before it's too late!

Source:

http://www.nonewarkpowerplant.org/