In a 4-1 vote, the Fluvanna County Board of Supervisors on Wednesday approved a conditional use permit for Nebraska-based company Tenaska to build its second natural gas plant in the community. Hundreds of members of the community voiced and wrote their opposition to the project over the multi-month process for the permit application, which concluded at a meeting that went into the early hours of the morning Thursday.
The project is dubbed the Expedition Generating Station and will be able to produce 1540 megawatts of power – enough to power 1.5 million homes. It will be located directly across the street from the existing plant that has been housed in Scottsville.
The plant will be housed on 50 acres of a 450-acre parcel. The company has also promised to place 350 acres of nearby land into a permanent conservation easement…