GenOn Energy, Inc. _ Bowline 3 and Lovett ... - Energy Highway

As part of the Bowline 3 project, GenOn will seek to continue its past track record of being
an active and engaged community partner. Bowline Generation Station employees currently
volunteer time and provide financial support to several community causes in Rockland
County. These meaningful contributions will continue to benefit local organizations
whose work advances and/or promotes health, welfare, education, economic development,
or other important public interests within the local community.
As a brownfield development project, Bowline 3 will minimize impacts in areas typically of
concern to the local community, particularly when compared to projects utilizing greenfield
sites. while we continue to investigate the impact of the proposed project, at this time
GenOn does not believe that adding a third generation unit to the existing Bowline facility
will have negative implications; rather, the facility will be a boon to the economic development
of the area and the facility will contribute to revitalization and continued improvements
in the community - the goals of a smart growth policy.
fInancIal
Please see the response provided under the financial heading in the "Required
Information"section of this document.
envIRonmental
Brownfield development projects such as Bowline 3, by definition, minimize impacts on the
environment and the surrounding community.
From an air emissions standpoint, the highly-efficient, clean, state-of-the-art combustion
turbine generation technology that will be utilized by Bowline 3 will provide important
environmental benefits to the surrounding region and the state of new York. Given Bowline
3’s high efficiency, GenOn anticipates that the plant will be dispatched ahead of older, less
efficient, less clean generation units in the downstate region. This displacement of higher
emissions units will constitute a net benefit to the region’s air quality. Bowline 3's CO2 performance
will also exceed that of units it will displace.
Bowline 3 will also benefit new York’s water resources. For example, we anticipate that
Bowline 3 will displace the operation of once-through-cooled units in downstate new York.
Adding to Bowline 3’s beneficial impact on water resources is the fact that the unit’s use of
dry cooling will not require cooling water discharges and therefore will not produce aquatic
ecology impacts to the Hudson River from such discharges.
when the Bowline 3 site was cleared and prepared for construction, a small federal
wetland (which was identified as part of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers approval) was
relocated. Beyond this, GenOn expects that any additional ecological impacts will be minimal
given that the site is essentially “shovel-ready.” GenOn does not anticipate that
the project will require any significant additional mitigation measures.
pRoject contRact / Request foR pRoposal (Rfp) status
The Bowline 3 project has not been submitted to any new York State agency or authority in
response to a request for proposals (RFP).
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