The project added roughly $10 million to the tax rolls for the current budget year that allowed Mayor Joe Ganim to provide a small tax cut in an election year and now the new 485-megawatt combined-cycle Bridgeport Harbor Station 5 is online in the South End, providing power to thousands of homes and businesses, according to PSEG.
CT Post reporter Jordan Grice has more:
“The plant means clean burning fuel for the next 40 years, but it also means good paying jobs and people getting an opportunity,” said Gov. Ned Lamont.
That includes PSEG’s $600,000 Ready2Work program which helped train and place 47 residents a trades union or career where the certifications created by the program were required.
Graduates of the program were also among the 700 construction workers that built the power plant.
“We are a company that keeps its commitments,” said PSEG president and COO Ralph LaRossa. “Here in Connecticut, we really saw a need to retrain some areas of the state and really focused here on Bridgeport.”
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Give us a break. CT has one of the highest electrical rates of the continental USA. Shame on all these involved. Ganim is a jerk and Lamont is becoming a jerk.