Middletown: Middletown power plant explosion: Kleen Energy power plant Middletown CT explosion kills five. Intensive search operation is still underway around twenty four hours after an explosion partially destroyed the Kleen Energy power plant that was under construction in the Middletown in Connecticut.
So far five people have been pronounced dead by officials in the Middletown, though rescuers are still searching for dozens of people who are still unaccounted.
Kleen Energy Systems in constructing a huge power plant on the site and it is already at a very advanced stage.
Initial reports had put the death toll at almost fifty people, but later on it was confirmed that many people who were severely injured were mentioned as dead.
Kleen Energy Systems, LLC’s new 620 MW Combined Cycle Electric Generating Facility located in Middletown, Connecticut was scheduled to start work later this year.
Unlike older power plants that are less than 30 percent efficient, the new gas-fired, combined cycle power plant is designed to operate at over 60 percent efficiency. The combined cycle process achieves this increased efficiency by sending waste heat from the gas turbine generator, that would normally be lost, to a steam turbine to generate even more electricity.
Local residents in Middletown and surrounded areas say they heard a very loud explosion and huge fire erupted on the site of the explosion. It is one of the worst such incidents during the construction of a power plant in the US.
