New York approves Con Edison’s proposed $ 800 million power line projects

• 3 years ago (2021-04-16)
• David Flin

North America 998 Transmission 181

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New York state utility regulators have approved Consolidated Edison Co of New York Inc’s (Con Edison) request to recover costs for three transmission projects in its New York service area. The projects, which the state Public Service Commission said represent an $800 million investment, would maintain and improve reliability and allow several fossil fuel-fired power plants to be retired.

The projects include transmission from the New York neighbourhoods: Rainey to Corona, Gowanus to Greenwood, and Goethals to Greenwood.

The commission said work will commence immediately, with the first project, known as Rainey, operational by the summer of 2023, and the Gowanus and Goethals projects operational by the start of summer 2025.

The commission said the projects are needed for reliability and to address deficiencies in two of Con Edison’s transmission load areas because of the retirement or unavailability of older peaking power plants.

The plants being retired include: Con Edison’s 17.1 MW 59th Street GT1 and 7th Street gas turbine units 1 and 2 (37 MW) in Manhattan; Con Edison’s Hudson Ave unit 5 (16.3 MW) in Brooklyn; the Helix Ravenswood units 1, 10, and 11 (68.6 MW) in Queens; NRG Energy’ s Astoria gas turbines (240 MW) in Queens; and NRG’s Arthur Kill GT1 unit (20 MW) in Staten Island.