Finger Lakes landmark shut down

AES Cayuga, formerly Milliken Station

Finger Lakes locals have noticed that the ever present steam plume over the AES Cayuga power plant seems to have disappeared.  South of 5 and 20, once again scooping Gannett, has learned that the plant was indeed shut down last Saturday.  Morningstar UK provides this update from Dow Jones:

Below are highlights of U.S. power plant operations reported Monday by Genscape, which uses a network of wireless devices to monitor points on the country's transmission grid. Plant status hasn't been independently confirmed by Dow Jones Newswires.

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NPCC AES Cayuga, LLC.'s AES Cayuga (322 MW capacity, Coal icon) shut down Saturday.

AES Cayuga is located in the Tompkins County town of Lansing.  With ongoing economic decline in Central New York, and the nation, demand for elecricity has plummeted, and now the Cayuga plant is up for sale.

The power plant plant has been the largest property taxpayer in the region, and will now be paying less.  The Lansing school district and local governments will keep spending no matter what, so Lansing residents will be forced to make up the difference, and it will be huge.  Dan Veaner, who has more patience than South of 5 and 20,  explained the costly bureaucratic nightmare in the Lansing Star.