Energy
NYS Electric Utility Service Territories Map
This interactive map shows the Utility Service Territories in New York State, including that of National Grid, Rochester Gas and Electric, NYS Electric and Gas, Central Hudson Gas and Electric, Orange and Rockland Utilities, Long Island Power Authority, Consolidated Edison and municipal utilities.
Data Source: NYS Department of Public Service. https://data.ny.gov/Energy-Environment/NYS-Electric-Utility-Service-Territories/q5m9-rahr
Wind Farms In NY 2019
This map shows the currently operating wind farms in New York.
Data Source: EIA Power Plants Shapefile. Operable electric generating plants in the United States by energy source. https://www.eia.gov/maps/layer_info-m.php
Coal Fired Power Plants In America 2019
Coal is facing hard times, with only about 300 remaining operating coal power plants across America. And many of those coal plants don't run a lot of hours a year.
Data Source: EIA Power Plants Shapefile. Operable electric generating plants in the United States by energy source. https://www.eia.gov/maps/layer_info-m.php
NPR
In the late 1960s, natural gas utilities launched "Operation Attack," a bold marketing campaign to bring lots more gas stoves into people's kitchens.
The gas utilities called Operation Attack their "most ambitious advertising and merchandising program ever." But as it got underway, concerns were becoming public about indoor pollution from gas stoves, including household levels of nitrogen dioxide.
Around the same time, Dr. Carl Shy, a federal public health researcher, was looking into the health effects of nitrogen dioxide. In 1970, Shy published a study showing that families exposed to greater levels of the air pollutant nitrogen dioxide outdoors had higher rates of respiratory illness than families in less-polluted areas. The research caught the attention of the gas utility industry, and they asked Shy for a meeting.
Green Energy Builders Sought Billions More in Subsidies. New York Said No. – The New York Times
New York officials refused on Thursday to grant an additional $12 billion in subsidies to the developers of 90 renewable-energy projects, raising concerns about the state’s ability to cut its dependence on fossil fuels over the next decade.
Jennison plant generated electrical power from 1945 to 2000 | Columns | thedailystar.com
It was just a little more than 10 years ago when the last electricity was generated at the Jennison electrical power generating plant in Bainbridge. The 1945 plant along state Route 7 stopped generating Tuesday, Oct. 23, 2000, and then closed Saturday, Nov. 4, 2000.
"There might be some tears and jokes," said Joe Nowhitney, a boiler operator, about the final crew and upcoming closure.
The mood was markedly different Thursday, Dec. 13, 1945. Nearly 250 guests of the New York State Electric & Gas Corp. gathered in the still-clean track hopperhouse of the plant, the coal unloading area next to the D&H Railroad tracks. Here, a buffet luncheon was served and a program followed.
By the 1990s, things were looking grim at the Jennison station. "NYSEG: Bainbridge plant survival at stake" was a headline in The Daily Star on Wednesday, Dec. 8, 1993. It wasn't just coal being used to generate electricity at the plant. That year, the burning of soil contaminated with coal tar became "necessary for the survival" of the plant.
Only two years earlier the state Department of Environmental Conservation had given permission for NYSEG to burn tires at the Bainbridge facility. Tires were removed from area landfills, chipped and sent to the station to be burned for energy.
Also in 1993, it was proposed that the plant burn polyethylene plastic extracted from disposable diapers in its fuel mixture. In 1994, permission was given to burn marijuana and other illicit drugs seized by police. Smokestack emissions from all of these fuel sources often drew concerns from Bainbridge area residents.
The Virginia-based AES Corporation bought the plant from NYSEG in 1999, and by 2000 AES had cited the age of the facility and the cost of the plant had become too great. The plant was closed and placed on what was termed "long-term cold-standby."