HOMER CITY, Pa.—Eleven days after the massive smokestacks and cooling towers of Pennsylvania’s largest coal-fired power plant came down in a dramatic fashion in this Indiana County village, causing both emotional and economic distress and a sense of hopelessness, Homer City Redevelopment announced that an even bigger natural gas power center would be built in its place.
The Homer City Energy Campus will be a series of natural gas plants that will power a massive data center campus.
The emotion coming from hometown boy Shawn Steffee was palpable—not just because the build will resurrect Homer City, which has seen six generations of Steffees, but also because it will create thousands of good-paying manufacturing jobs for at least the next four to six years.
“It is a game-changer for the region and for the state of Pennsylvania,” said Steffee, the business agent…
