Company that gave up on coal-fired power plant for southern Ohio now plans natural gas plant
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) – A power company plans to build a natural gas-fired plant in southern Ohio on a site where it scrapped plans for a plant using coal.
Columbus-based American Municipal Power Inc. on Monday said its new project would build a 600-megawatt gas plant on the Ohio River in Meigs County. The coal-fired plant would have been larger, generating 1,000 megawatts.
AMP needs approval from more than 80 cities it supplies with power in six states.
The company gave up on the coal-fired plant last fall.
An environmental group that opposed the coal plant says it won’t object to the gas plant. Another critic of the earlier plan says it’s still studying the new project.
Gov. Ted Strickland says it will create more than 500 construction jobs and 28 permanent ones.
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