JPG76 wrote:I assume you are talking about the power plant near the M&E on the Hackensack river. That plant is coal fired. The coal is delivered on barges.
Both of PSEG Fossil, LLC's coal-capable NJ generating stations, Hudson (Jersey City) and Mercer (Hamilton Township), have received coal by ocean-going barge for decades. Coal is shipped by rail to tidewater in Virginia and loaded on the barges for the journey north along the coast. That said, because of the low prices, I believe that both stations are mostly fired by natural gas in recent times. PSEG Fossil Connecticut, LLC's Bridgeport Harbor Station also receives its coal by water, but the unit rarely runs on coal.
Rockland Capital's B. L. England Station in Beasley Point, NJ is coal-fired but under the terms of its settlement agreement with the NJDEP, the emissions permits expire about a year from now so coal will cease being used. The Station is appealing a Pinelands Commission order denying a permit for a natural gas pipeline which would have been buried in the shoulder of existing main roads to convert the Station to gas. Absent a favorable result on appeal or legislatively the Station will likely close.