Mitsubishi subsidiary Diamond Generating is Red box is the boundary of the proposed North Bergen Liberty Generating Station site. Green line is the link to the Williams Companies' Transco natural-gas pipeline. The yellow line is an underground transmission cable to ConEd's substation on West 49th St. in New York City. The blue line is a connection to the Bergen County Utilities Authority for water.
The 1,200-megawatt plant, called the North Bergen Liberty Generating Project, would rival PSEG's mammoth Bergen Generating Station in nearby Ridgefield for electricity output. Power would be transported via underground cable to Manhattan, where it could power as many as 1.2 million households.
In an August filing with New York authorities, the company said the project would employ 2,146 construction workers temporarily to build the plant and 33 permanent workers to run it.