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有效地为74.5万户家庭提供了最高生产力的动力，长期以来，该工厂一直被环保主义者视为污染者，并被列入马萨诸塞州所谓的“肮脏的五家”。为了改善排放而进行的升级和改造对该工厂的经营者来说是非常昂贵的，因此，由于违反了“清洁空气法”，该公司被命令在2014年前关闭。

Effectively powering 745,000 homes at its peak productivity, the plant was long targeted as a polluter by environmentalists and is included in Massachusetts’ so-called “Filthy Five.” Upgrades and retrofits to improve emissions were prohibitively expensive for the plant’s operator, and as a result it was ordered to shut down by 2014 for violations of the Clean Air Act.

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一家致力于可持续解决方案的新兴电力公司，抓住机会收购了老化的燃煤电厂。他们的目的是重建该地盘，方法是拆卸现有的设施，并在现有地盘的一小部分兴建一个新的清洁气体燃烧的联合循环设施，以便在余下的地区进行混合及工业用途。

Footprint Power, a start-up power company dedicated to sustainable solutions, seized the opportunity to purchase the aging coal-fired power plant. Their intention is to redevelop the site by demolishing the existing facility and constructing a new cleaner, gas-fired combined cycle facility on a small portion of the existing site, allowing for mixed and industrial uses in the remaining area.

新的最先进的电厂将提供630兆瓦的电力，并在2016年前全面投入运行。它不仅将减少碳排放，而且其“快速启动”能力可以帮助开发新的可再生能源，如风能和太阳能，这些能源需要随时可用的备用能源，以适应不断变化的天气条件。

The new state-of-the-art plant is slated to provide 630 MW of power and be in full operation by 2016. It will not only reduce carbon emissions, but its “Quick Start” capability can help develop new renewable sources of energy, such as wind and solar power, which need readily available backup power to account for constantly changing weather conditions.

设计团队的任务是尽量减少新工厂的视觉影响，并通过设计配置、景观美化和包覆来改善设施的外观。通过将设施放置在最佳位置并尽可能使用最紧凑的足迹，设施布局和聚集减少了视觉影响。

The design team was tasked with minimizing the visual impacts of the new plant and improving the appearance of the facility by designing the configuration, landscaping and cladding. The facility layout and massing reduces the visual impact by placing the facility in an optimal location and using the most compact footprint possible. 

建立一个连续的景观护堤不仅将降低整体视觉高度和减少直接视线对设施的数量，而且还将减少任何设施噪音，并为社区提供一个7英亩的公共公园。最后，该设施的包层被设计成与Salem相关联，并提供声学吸收。

The creation of a continuous landscaped berm will not only reduce the overall visual height and decrease the amount of direct line-of-sight to the facility but will also mitigate any facility noises and provide a 7-acre public park to the community. Finally, the cladding of the facility was designed to be contextual to Salem as well as provide acoustic absorption.