As we’ve told you before, and after years of campaigning, the last coal-fired power plant in New England — the Merrimack generating station in Bow, New Hampshire — finally has a plan to close for good!
When: Sunday, August 11, 2024 1:00 PM 4:00 PM
Where: Memorial Park45 Pleasant StreetPembroke, NH, 03275United States (map)
What: We’ll have snacks, singing, arts and crafts, a solar-powered sound system, boating, a plant swap, and more!
We’ll also have lots more information about our new plan to shut down all the fossil-fuel “peaker” plants in New England. Peaker plants are power plants that only run occasionally, sometimes just a handful of hours each year. But they’re very heavily subsidized by our broken system for predicting and paying for future energy needs – called the forward capacity auction.
- You can read more about peaker plants from our friends at No Coal No Gas here.
- You can look at a map of all the peaker plants in the country from the clean energy group here.
- Any you can see our past action challenging the New England forward capacity auction here. Or see here for a report on when we delivered all those comments to FERC.
Join us this weekend in New Hampshire to learn more about all these plans, and more! Let’s celebrate the end of coal in New England, and the fight to end all fossil fuels fast, fair, and forever!