The Delaware department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control says it will be reissuing a permit to allow Bloom Energy to consumer more than natural gas than originally anticipated for its electrical project.
Officials say that they forgot to update the permit as the project grew larger at a Delmarva Power substation.
The Wilmington News Journal reports that the Bloom project has been challenged by local residents who said the fuel-cell maker’s products are not as efficiently as promised.
The paper reports that for Delmarva Power customers who use 1,000 kilowatt hours are set to pay a state required surcharge of $3.65 next month.
That’s down from the $3.80 they are paying this month.
The surcharge is part of the power that Bloom will produce with its natural-gas power fuel cells for two Delmarva Substations in new Castle County.
