Glastonbury-based Gemma Power Systems will quarterback engineering, procurement and construction work on a major power plant to be built in Killingly starting later this year.
Gemma, a subsidiary of Maryland’s Argan Inc., said Thursday that it won the contract from the plant’s developer, NTE Energy LLC. The value was not disclosed.
Approved by the Connecticut Siting Council last summer, the $700 million Killingly Energy Center will be a 650-megawatt dual-fuel (natural gas and diesel oil) combined cycle plant.
Gemma’s previous contracts from NTE have included new plants in Ohio and North Carolina.
The new plant’s power train will be provided by Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems Americas (MHPS).
“This will be the fourth project for the team of NTE, MHPS and Gemma and we are thrilled to have the opportunity to design and build another state-of-the-art energy project and to have it located in our home state of Connecticut,”G emma co-president Charles Collins, IV, said in a statement. “This project provides Gemma with another opportunity to use Connecticut labor which has successfully supported Gemma on past projects.”
In all, Gemma has worked on approximately 40 domestic power plant projects totaling 15 gigawatts.
The Killingly project would be the first major natural gas plant built in Connecticut since CPV Towantic was completed in 2018.
Environmental groups and clean-energy advocates have decried the Killingly plant, arguing that building more emissions-producing energy generation doesn’t mesh with Connecticut’s decarbonization goals over the coming decades.
