How 1,800 Local Tradespeople Are Powering Pennsylvania's Ultimate Energy and Data Innovation Campus

Salena Zito· Oct 3, 2026 · 6:30 PM UTC ·5 min read · 0 reactions · 0 comments · 7 views

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Advertisement googletag.cmd.push(function () { googletag.display("div-gpt-300x250_4"); //googletag.pubads().refresh([gptAdSlot["div-gpt-300x250_4"]]) }); "This isn't the end, this is the beginning," said the business agent for Boilermakers Local 154. Homer City Generation announced earlier this month that more than 1,800 direct-hire tradespeople and skilled contractors are currently working at the site of the largest natural gas-powered plant currently under construction in the United States. Those workers are from nine local union organizations.

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▪Advertisement googletag.cmd.push(function () { googletag.display("div-gpt-300x250_4"); //googletag.pubads().refresh([gptAdSlot["div-gpt-300x250_4"]]) }); "This isn't the end, this is the beginning," said the business agent for Boilermakers
▪Homer City Generation announced earlier this month that more than 1,800 direct-hire tradespeople and skilled contractors are currently working at the site of the largest natural gas-powered plant currently under construction in the United S
▪Those workers are from nine local union organizations.

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How 1,800 Local Tradespeople Are Powering Pennsylvania's Ultimate Energy and Data Innovation Campus Salena Zito 2:30 PM | October 03, 2026 AP Photo/Ted Shaffrey, File HOMER CITY, Pennsylvania -- Eighteen months ago, Shawn Steffee stood in a field in Indiana County and watched the smokestacks of Pennsylvania's largest coal-fired power plant fold into a cloud of dust, then told anyone who would listen that the wreckage was not a funeral. Advertisement googletag.cmd.push(function () { googletag.display("div-gpt-300x250_4"); //googletag.pubads().refresh([gptAdSlot["div-gpt-300x250_4"]]) }); "This isn't the end, this is the beginning," said the business agent for Boilermakers Local 154. That prediction is unfolding.

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