Prysmian Group announced Friday it has decided to abandon its plans to locate a manufacturing plant in Somerset, where it would have built undersea cables for wind farms. 

Representatives from the Italian company contacted Jamison Souza of the Somerset Board of Selectmen on Friday to deliver the news. 

“It was an unfortunate call to let us know that they’re going to be pulling out of the project down at Brayton Point, and they’re not going to be moving forward,” Souza said Saturday. 

The project would have been a 47-acre manufacturing plant at Brayton Point Commerce Center, the site of a former coal-fired power plant. In 2022, President Joe Biden specifically chose the site to deliver a speech about the dangers of climate change and the benefits of clean energy like offshore wind.

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