A 2021 study also found the carbon capture process emits significant amounts of methane, a potent greenhouse gas that’s ...

Connecticut’s last coal-fired power plant, Bridgeport Harbor Station, is scheduled to be closed by 2021 and replaced by a new cleaner-burning natural gas facility, according to the plant’s ...

Bridgeport Regional Business Council members view the coal-fired steam turbines during a tour of the PSEG Power Connecticut plant in Bridgeport, Conn. on Wednesday, October 8, 2014.

Developer Chad Parks said the 500-foot industrial landmark must come down because "the maintenance on it is significant." ...

BRIDGEPORT -- A Canada-based company is planning to buy the natural gas power plant from Bridgeport Energy LLC, for $355 million. The company, Capital Power Corp., said Tuesday it may expand the ...

A major change is coming to the Bridgeport skyline. After 70 years, the iconic red-and-white smokestack towering over the city will come down, along with the surrounding PSEG power plant. On ...

LS Power will hand back 245 million Class B shares and more than $1 billion in cash to pick up Bridgeport Energy at 10 Atlantic St. and seven other Dynegy plants in other states.

Good morning — Bridgeport Mayor Joe Ganim was awarded the 2024 Mayors’ Climate Protection Award from the U.S. Conference of Mayors. The award praises Ganim and a dozen of mayors across the ...

New life could be coming to Bridgeport. The governor announced plans on Tuesday to demolish the former Public Service Electric and Gas Plant. It’s an old, decommissioned, coal-power plant in the ...

United Illuminating opened the plant in 1957 to provide power needed by industry in southwestern Connecticut. It was designed to burn oil or coal, but was converted to coal-only in 2002.

The old power plants, which required water for cooling and the delivery of coal, come with huge potential and significant risk. “It’s a liability transfer business,” Parks said.