DOVER – Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control Secretary Shawn M. Garvin has issued a DNREC Notice of Administrative Penalty and Secretary’s Order to Diamond State Generation Partners, LLC (Bloom Energy) for violations of Delaware’s air quality regulations. Diamond State Generation Partners has paid a penalty of $40,000 along with $5,454 in cost recovery to the Department.

Diamond State Generation Partners, LLC/Bloom Energy owns and operates a fuel cell facility in New Castle, Del., commonly identified as the “Red Lion” facility. The DNREC Administrative Penalty covers air quality violations at the company’s Red Lion facility that occurred from June 16 through July 19, 2019.

The Secretary’s Order can be found on the DNREC website at https://dnrec.alpha.delaware.gov/secretarys-orders/enforcement/.

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Media contact: Michael Globetti, DNREC Public Affairs, 302-739-9902

DOVER – DNREC has rescheduled a public hearing on Delaware Air Regulation No. 1102 Natural Minor construction permit applications submitted by Bloom Energy (Diamond State Generation Partners, LLC) for Thursday, Jan. 10, 2019. The hearing will be held at 6 p.m. at DNREC’s offices at 391 Lukens Drive, New Castle, DE 19720.

DNREC Secretary Shawn M. Garvin said the public hearing, originally to have taken place Thursday, Dec. 27, “was rescheduled out of consideration for the public with regard to the holiday season.”

The Jan. 10, 2019 hearing will address Bloom Energy’s permit application for replacing all the company’s fuel cells at Bloom’s Red Lion site located at 1593 River Road, New Castle and Bloom’s Brookside site located at 512 E. Chestnut Hill Road, Newark.

The application, draft permit and technical memorandum may be inspected at the offices of DNREC’s Division of Air Quality, State Street Commons, 100 W. Water Street, Suite 6A, Dover, DE 19904, and at DNREC offices at 715 Grantham Lane, New Castle, DE 19720. Bloom Energy (Diamond State Generation Partners, LLC) permit applications can also be found on the DNREC website at http://www.dnrec.delaware.gov/Air/Pages/Public-Hearings.aspx. More information about the public hearing is on the Delaware Public Meeting Calendar at https://publicmeetings.delaware.gov/Meeting/61370.

Anyone wishing to offer comment on this permit application may do so either orally or in written form at the public hearing on Thursday, Jan. 10, 2019. In lieu of attending the hearing, written comments can be submitted to the Hearing Officer Lisa A. Vest via either email to lisa.vest@delaware.gov or via USPS to:

Lisa A. Vest, Hearing Officer
Office of the Secretary
Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control
89 Kings Highway
Dover, Delaware 19901

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Michael Globetti, DNREC Public Affairs, 302-739-9902

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