BAINBRIDGE – Bainbridge residents could find out this Tuesday whether or not their community will once again be home to an electricity generation facility – one that could help in relieving the state’s electricity crunch, and create over 1,600 temporary and long-term jobs locally, officials said.

In response to Governor George Pataki’s “Advanced Clean Coal Initiative,” the Virginia-based AES Corporation has submitted a bid to the New York Power Authority to construct and operate a 500 megawatt-producing clean coal generation facility at the old Jennison plant, located on state Route 7 in the Town of Bainbridge.