Millstone

Millstone is located on a 520-acre parcel south of Rope Ferry Road (Connecticut Route 156) in the southwest portion of the Town of Waterford, Connecticut (Property). The Property is bounded on the north by Rope Ferry Road (Connecticut Route 156), on the west by Niantic Bay, on the south by Long Island Sound and Jordan Cove, and on the east by Gardiner's Wood Road. The Property is traversed by an Amtrak rail line.


The Millstone power generating units, turbine buildings, and associated support buildings are located in the southernmost portion of the Property within a 49.3-acre area encompassed by security physical barriers and to which access is controlled (Protected Area). The Protected Area was established and is maintained in accordance with requirements established by the NRC.


Portions of the Property, outside of the Protected Area, are developed with employee parking areas, office and storage buildings, training facilities, an electric switchyard and a transmission line corridor extending from the switchyard to the north. In the northeast portion of the Property, DNC maintains baseball, soccer and football fields used by the Town. All remaining areas of the Property are maintained as open space.


Source: CT Siting Council

DEEP selected Millstone’s bid for 9 million megawatt-hours, and, after a renegotiation, PURA approved power purchase agreements (PPA) between the state’s electric distribution companies (EDCs, i.e., Eversource and United Illuminating (UI)) and Dominion, which is Millstone’s owner. Read the (long) CT Office of Legislative Research Millstone Power Procurement Report by Mary Fitzpatrick, Associate Analyst, September 1, 2020 | 2020-R-0203 , which discusses the power procurement authorized by PA 17-3, June Special Session (JSS). (For more information on that legislation and related requirements, see OLR Report 2018-R-0313.)