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The decision to proceed
with power plant construction at Rock Springs came after nearly four years
of study and review regarding possible site selections. Old Dominion focused
on several different sites in Virginia and Maryland, before deciding to
explore constructing this peaking plant in Cecil County, Md. Construction on the plant began in October of 2001. The Rock Springs facility was completed in June 2003 and accepted by Old Dominion for commercial operation shortly thereafter. The facility is located on approximately 114 acres, 98 in Rock Springs, Md., and 16 in Lancaster County, Pa., All of the development is on approximately 30 acres of the Cecil County portion of the property. This is a 680-megawatt power station consisting of four combustion turbines (CTs), equipped with the best available emission-control technology. Old Dominion and Con Edison own two CTs each. The remainder of the facility is jointly owned by the two companies. The station is designed to provide cost-effective, environmentally friendly and reliable electric capacity for the three Old Dominion member distribution cooperatives on the Delmarva peninsula during the hottest and coldest days of the year, when electricity usage is at its peak. These three distribution cooperatives, Choptank Electric Cooperative (Denton, Md.), Delaware Electric Cooperative (Greenwood, Del.), and A&N Electric Cooperative (Parksley, Va.) serve approximately 120,000 homes, businesses and farms in one of the fastest-growing regions on the East Coast.
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