AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ State environmental regulators have approved an air-pollution permit for a proposed expansion of a central Texas coal-fired power plant.
Texas Commission on Environmental Quality commissioners approved the permit Wednesday in Austin that would expand the NRG Limestone plant.
Princeton, N.J.-based NRG Energy Inc. proposes to build an 800-megawatt generating unit in Limestone County near Jewett, 100 miles south of Dallas. NRG says the plant would burn pulverized coal to fire its boilers.
The project is part of NRG’s $16 billion plan to add 10,500 megawatts in electricity generating capacity over the next 10 years.
A megawatt is enough power to serve between 700 and 1,000 homes.