Renovo Energy Center Project Update

LOCK HAVEN, PA – A series of public permitting ads for the proposed Renovo Energy Center is seen as a positive step for the $800 million natural gas-to-electricity project.

The ads are being run this week in the Lock Haven Express. As explained to therecord-online by someone knowledgeable of the project, the ads are related to a new air quality permit project developers submitted some weeks ago, the ads required by the state Department of Environmental Protection to appear three days in a row. Project backers are hopeful the new permit is approved in November or December of this year. .Mike Flanagan, president/CEO of the Clinton County Economic Partnership, told therecord-online Monday, “We remain optimistic that this will be a 2021 project.

The power plant project has been in the works since 2014 and was first publicly announced in 2015. The project is expected to have hundreds of construction workers on site for more than two years. There will be approximately 30 permanent jobs when the project is completed. It is planned for the old rail yard site on the north side of Renovo.