NRG Energy and GE Energy Financial Services from Connecticut are attempting to revive long-dormant plans to build massive new power plants that, if the state agrees to award them long-term contracts, could power nearly a million homes. NRG Energy has been trying for years to build a 530MW plant in Meriden, and GE Energy Financial Services has had plans for a 512MW plant in Oxford. Instead of spending electric customers’ money on new power lines, the two companies argue, the state should issue long-term power agreements to them to supply power to the state’s two electricity distribution companies, Connecticut Light & Power (CL&P) and United Illuminating (UI). The contracts would provide the capital necessary to build the two plants, both of which have already been granted permits from the Connecticut Siting Council dating back to 1999. Both projects are resurfacing because of a proposal by CL&P to build USD 714 million worth of overhead power lines from northern Bloomfield to Suffield and complete USD 14 million worth of upgrades to power lines in Manchester. The company is proposing to build a plant, fueled by natural gas and oil, at its Towantic site near the intersection of Prokop Road and Towantic Hill Road in Oxford if awarded a 15- to 30yr contract with CL&P and UI. NRG is proposing to build a natural gas and oil-fueled plant at its Meriden station near the Berlin town line, where Power Development Corp. and El Paso Energy had attempted to build one.