New site chosen for Lordstown power plant

January 2, 2015 at 10:55p.m.

LORDSTOWN

Clean Energy Future Lordstown LLC was unable to get the zoning it needed to construct an $800 million, 800-megawatt gas-fired power plant on Salt Springs Road last spring, so it has selected another site that doesn’t need a zone change.

“We’re going to build a power plant,” Lordstown Mayor Arno Hill said Friday. “We didn’t want them to go [away]. We worked hard to keep them here for the schools and everybody else.”

The project will involve cash payments to the schools in exchange for a tax abatement that the village will consider in the coming months.

Hill said there is relatively little this time that could stand in the way of the project’s coming to fruition.

Read more about it in Saturday's Vindicator or on Vindy.com.