Mcintosh Unit News Today

Lakeland added housing and air traffic, fitted its police with cameras, cut RP Funding Center losses and added years to its Detroit Tigers deal.

The utility will be removing the old conveyor that transported coal from a storage yard across the road to the old McIntosh Unit 3 plant.

Contractors for Lakeland Electric brought down large parts of Unit 3 Saturday morning in explosions heard around the county.

Parts of East Lake Parker Drive will be closed early Saturday as contractors implode parts of the power plant, which has been inactive since 2021.

Lakeland Electric spent $8.1 million purchase electricity from Orlando Utilities Commission in fiscal year 2022 and close the utilitys generation gap.

The union representing the workers says the utility violated a memorandum of agreement by shuttering the plant before 2024

Lakeland Electric, utility union clash over wages and Unit 3s closure LAKELAND —  The heated clash between Lakeland Electric and its unionized workers is growing stronger as a dispute over fair wages builds on tension regarding Unit 3s early closure.  Lakeland officials declared they have hit an impasse with the Utility Workers Union of America, which represents about 270 of the citys electric and water utility workers, in attempting to negotiate a new three-year collective bargaini...