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The 680-MW CPV Valley Energy Center power plant in Orange County, N.Y.Source: Competitive Power Ventures Holdings LLC
Competitive Power Ventures Holdings LLC's natural gas-fired CPV Valley Energy Center power plant in New York has begun commercial operation.
CPV announced Oct. 1 the operational start of the 680-MW facility in Wawayanda, N.Y., in Orange County, nearly two months after a New York Supreme Court judge sided with the developer in a permitting dispute by granting a request for an injunction that let the company go ahead with operating the plant as it awaits a pending court decision on its permit renewal. The state Department of Environmental Conservation, or DEC, had refused to renew an air permit for the facility on the basis that it did not have a federal Title V...