The Right Project at a Unique Location

1. Natural Gas Lines: The proposed location for a new green energy facility includes two existing underground natural gas lines, Columbia and Dominion. One supplies gas that originates in the Gulf Coast and another that supplies gas that originates in the Ohio Valley. These pipelines connect to the major Transco pipeline and the liquid natural gas port in Cove Point, Maryland, among others. This redundancy will allow Green Energy Partners to build a unique facility that will never need to burn diesel.
2. Access to the Power Grid: There are two existing high-voltage transmission towers that traverse the site containing 3 separate transmission lines (one 500kV and two 230kV) that will allow ready access to the existing electrical transmission grid and allow power generated from the facility to be placed into the system. This means Green Energy Partners will not need to install transmission lines from its location to connect with the grid. For the reasons stated above, this site is not suitable for residential units.
   
   
3. Nearby Water Resources: Modern technology allows Green Energy Partners to construct a facility that uses natural gas to produce electric power and steam and waste water for cooling to produce electric energy that powers our lives. Currently, the Town of Leesburg pays to send its treated waste water effluent through a pipe that is discharged into the Potomac River. Green Energy Partners is proposing to purchase that effluent from the Town of Leesburg and run an underground pipe to the proposed site. The treated waste water that is currently discharged into the Potomac River, which contains nitrates and other nutrients, would be re-used by Green Energy as part of the plant cooling system. Chesapeake Bay activists have sought over time to decrease the amount of nitrates being discharged annually into the Chesapeake Bay and its tributaries. Green Energy Partners’ proposed facility will capture that treated effluent, resulting in a cleaner and healthier Chesapeake Bay.

Green Energy Partners’ site is located on the north and east sides of the Route 267 (Dulles Greenway) east of Route 643 (Sycolin Road), south of Route 653 (Cochran Mill Road) and west of Gant Lane (Route 652). The property contains a mixture of open fields and a combination of evergreen and deciduous forested areas.

According to studies by the RW Beck Company and others, a hybrid energy facility at the proposed location will help relieve congestion of the regional electric power grid and will meet the future demand for power in the region. 

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