CPF66 wrote: ↑Fri Dec 15, 2023 5:32 pm The current owner of Dragon has neglected it for years. It should have been rebuilt many eons ago, but prior owners failed to make that investment. From what I gather, the plant has been worn out since the end of the Boston Big Dig. Since then the owners have limped it along. Currently they can only run the crusher at night, since it draws so much power it would cause blackouts in Rockland during the day. When its all said and done the plant needs $13 million in repairs to stay operational. Thats not including earth moving equipment and what not that needs to be replaced as well. They would have been able to access lower cost pet-coke, but the trestle they used to unload the cars on needs to be replaced. They ended up having a company from down south bring a excavator that straddles the cars unload them, which is why they sat for 3 or 4 months at the plant.Whoever told you they could cause Rockland blackouts is wrong-- Dragon is tapped off its own 115kv feed with built in protection to the system. They can be tripped off if they 'create trouble'. They likely run at night during off-peak so they can have a better rate for the high cost per kWH (standard offer went up 60% in 2 years). I suspect energy costs and their more and more enviornmental issues are to blame in this too.