Driving along I-95 at the nexus of the West End and South End, a tax-generating thermal loop infrastructure rises that is about a decade in the making operated by Easton-based NUPower “which converts waste and low-quality heat from a variety of sources into low-temperature hot water for customers in Bridgeport.”
The hot water is then circulated through a thermal loop to governmental, academic and office buildings in Downtown and the University of Bridgeport campus.
State Rep. Steve Stafstrom provided an update on the project on his Facebook page:
Checking on construction progress at the NuPower thermal loop, which will provide 5 MW of clean power, low cost heating for much of the South End, and more tax revenue per sq foot than nearly every property in the City. This novel project has been years in the making and has required significant legislative and administrative wrangling by the Bridgeport Delegation to come to fruition. It’s a green future for #bridgeportct!
I wonder if they paid their building permits yet
Joe Ganim’s boys don’t need permitting.
“Our Team
The senior members of our company, along with the other members of our team, bring their proven development expertise in engineering, permitting, project management, finance, and community relations.”
You know that thing about this “deuce” that was dropped on the Port with no real vocal opposition in Hartford by the Port’s elected official in the Port’s best interest. Is that you could have gotten the same results without the eyesore?
Not overly upset about the project per se. Overall, that plot of land is what it is, but the disingenuousness of it all says it all. All they had to do was not make the project higher than 95. Everybody wins, per se. Out of sight, out of mind.
No, let’s design it so it rises over 95, a few feet, so millions of travelers can see the deuced drop on the Port. 🙂
Good Job, every Port elected official, past and present, because this hot, steamy deuce is a by-product of your silence, your Judas and pound of flesh to allow the the depress the Port to be depressed when it really didn’t have to be, without any loss overall to anything the project provides. Shame on you, everyone.
Gold Coast setting at the table with the Port reps. We love the Port 🤣
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6AVMcJa77PM
Wait, what, decades? Y, all be surprised, perhaps not.
Good Job, heathens, pivot, disingenuous, pivot. 🤣
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJNcZCatqmg
Perhaps Representative Stafstrom has a few additional words to reference the project and will offer them to Only In Bridgeport to make up for local economic development and energy related stories do no make the cut for ‘newsworthy’ often.
From above “more tax revenue per sq foot than nearly every property in the City”. Steve is that true? Land value + developed structure = VALUE which can be taxed straight away without special abatements. Who owns, controls the operation, receives revenue, and decides where profits flow or surplus cash or energy goes? Where is maintenance of this visual guardrail on I-95 due? When you look at energy projects, there are often concerns about dangers and how these risks are contemplated in the design. Any comments in this regard?
Likely good news for those in the South End, District 131. What does Jorge Cruz say about it? Time will tell.
Ask Joe Ganim’s boys from Easton. Here’s their website:
https://nupowerllc.net/
John, the only thing Stafstrom is doing in Hartford for Port is, well.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jyz8PTWReWo&t=31s
That’s a monstrosity, hot “deuce” Hartford/Greenwich/Gold Coast dumped on the Port for every person who travels on 95 through the Port. 🤣
Apparently, they are putting these fuel cell “deuces” all over the South End in the name of Green Energy, and the remnants of the old power plant smoke stack is the problem. Good Job WEEPA. 🤣
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohlW9SbhLzc
People traveling down 95 through the Port, be like. 🤣
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8EMndSFFMk
Off topic, but loaded with relevant implications for Bridgeport and the future… https://westfaironline.com/fairfield/for-bridgeport-ferry-owner-new-terminal-will-eventually-be-a-reality/?mc_cid=21d247a1e8&mc_eid=b69b7ec333
JML, the land this facility sits on was owned by Dinardo Enterprises. Who would have dared to derail or question a project benefiting the Chairwoman of the Connecticut Democratic Party?
“more tax revenue per sq foot than nearly every property in the City”.
For how long did the property taxes on the land go unpaid? If the above statement is true, imagine how much they paid for the land.