The Lackawanna Clean Energy plant will be built on the existing site of a shutdown steel mill in Lackawanna, New York. The Lackawanna Clean Energy plant is sited on a Superfund site that was a steel mill for over 80 years. The existing steel mill site is in deplorable condition. The Lackawanna Clean Energy project will demo the existing dilapidated and rusted equipment, build the new plant and revitalize the local economy.

The plant is estimated to cost $1.5 billion to construct and to employ 1,500 workers during construction and employ 200 full time employees after construction. The plant will take 4 years from design to startup.

The Lackawanna plant will convert 6,000 tons per day of petroleum coke, a refinery by-product, and produce 85 mmscfm of ultra-clean substitute natural gas (SNG). The SNG can be used to provide heating gas for 40,000 homes and businesses in the area.

This is a win-win for New York. An old industrial Superfund site gets a facelift; refinery by-product petcoke is the feedstock; and New York gets ultra-clean natural gas for heating. That’s a win-win.