(KLZA)--EDGE Executive Director Lucas Froeschl provided an update on the proposed Nebraska Rural Generation power plant progress and a word of caution.  

Nebraska Rural Generation has secured land for their proposed power plant project, but noted that there is no promise the project will come to fruition, but the attempt to determine if this can be done is well underway.

In a related agenda item, the Council approved a Dual Representation Power Plant Structure Discovery Contract.  

Attorney David Levy with the BairdHolm firm in Omaha has been identified as the premier public power attorney in Nebraska. 
 
The dual representation contract coupled with a second contract will add an extra layer of protection to protect local rate payers.

Levy represents developers of wind, solar and energy storage projects in Nebraska, Iowa and Kansas.

Froeschl also reviewed highlights from a March press release from Citroniq Chemicals  and a 15-year agreement they have to sell products from their yet to be built facility, planned for a location south of Falls City.  

It was also noted that a $5 million grant application submitted to the Economic Development Administration to offset costs of the $8.8 million substation planned on West 14th Street was resubmitted following the correction of a clerical error in the original application.