Mass. Municipal Ludlow plant gets approval

The Massachusetts Municipal Wholesale Electric Co. said today that state regulators have certified a final environmental report for a power plant that the company is proposing to build at its Stony Brook Energy Center site in Ludlow.

The company is a Ludlow-based joint action agency for the consumer-owned, municipal utilities of Massachusetts, and the company said that Secretary of Energy and Environmental Affairs Ian A. Bowles has determined that its proposed generating unit “adequately and properly complies” with the Massachusetts Environmental Policy Act.

In the certificate of compliance, Bowles stated that the project “may proceed to permitting,” the company said.

The company is proposing construction of a 280-megawatt, combined-cycle generating unit.
(By Chris Reidy, Globe staff)