Ohio board OKs Lordstown gas-fueled power plant

September 17, 2015 at 4:05p.m.

COLUMBUS — The Ohio Power Siting Board today authorized Clean Energy Future-Lordstown to construct an 800-megawatt natural gas-fired power plant in Lordstown.

The Lordstown Energy Center will be located 17 acres of land in the Lordstown Industrial Park east of State Route 45 and south of Henn Parkway.

The facility and associated transmission infrastructure will interconnect to the American Transmission Systems Inc. bulk transmission system.

The company plans to start construction later this year and begin commercial operation by May 2018.

According to Clean Energy Future, the project represents a construction investment of more than $850 million and will support an estimated 1,026 related jobs in Trumbull and Mahoning counties.