Tuesday, December 7 @ 6:30 p.m.

YOUR VOICE MATTERS

This is your chance to tell your story of living, working, or going to school near Pittsfield Generating Peaker Plant and to tell our Dept. of Environmental Protection that they need to enforce emission limits by no longer allowing peakers to burn fossil fuels. There will be Public Hearing on the renewal of Pittsfield Generating’s Air Quality Operating Permit on December 7, at 6:30 p.m. via Zoom or phone.

• Peaking power plants, also known as peaker plants, and occasionally just “peakers”, are power plants that generally run only when there is a high demand — known as peak demand — for electricity.
• Peaker plants disproportionately emit health-damaging air pollutants — mainly ozone forming chemicals like nitrogen oxides (NOx) and harmful particulates — that contribute to poor local air quality and harm public health in these vulnerable frontline communities.

Peaker plants are:
– Old & inefficient
– Highest polluters per megawatts of energy
– Easily replaced by grid storage and renewables

The neighborhoods in which Pittsfield Generating is located have a shorter life expectancy of about 12 years less than the outlying neighborhoods. It is not right to continue adding to the burden of our communities when an alternative is possible.