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Consolidated Edison acquired or merged with more than a dozen companies between 1936 and 1960. Con Edison today is the result of acquisitions, dissolutions, and mergers of more than 170 individual electric, gas, and steam companies. Consolidated Edison acquired land on the Hudson River in Buchanan, NY, in 1954 for the Indian Point nuclear power ...
The New York City steam system includes Con Edison's Steam Operations, which provides steam to large parts of Manhattan. Other smaller systems provide steam to New York University and Columbia University, and many individual buildings in New York City also have their own steam systems. The steam is used to heat and cool buildings and for ...
[15] [16] In 2011, Big Allis burned 97% natural gas, 3% oil (used as backup fuels). The site also includes a steam generation plant consisting of four Babcock & Wilcox boilers, owned and run by Con Edison. The plant helps in the supply of steam to the Manhattan steam system when needed, via the Ravenswood Tunnel under the East River. [17] [18]
The 644-megawatt natural-gas-fired plant came on line in 2012. [5] It connects to a 6.5-mile, 345-kilovolt power line under the Upper New York Bay connecting with a Consolidated Edison substation in Gowanus in Brooklyn, New York [6] [7] which is the longest XLPE cable in the world. [8] [9]
The projects were proposed by a consortium of the state's seven Investor-Owned Utility (IOU) companies (New York Transco (Transco), [1] composed of Consolidated Edison, Orange and Rockland, PSEG-Long Island, Central Hudson, National Grid, New York State Electric and Gas, and Rochester Gas and Electric) in response to a New York State Public ...
"A History of the Consolidated Gas Electric Light and Power Company of Baltimore," written in 1928 by Delbert B. Lowe, recounts the origins of this groundbreaking utility and the pre-natural-gas ...
FRANKFURT (Reuters) -Germany's largest power producer RWE has agreed to buy Con Edison's Clean Energy Businesses for $6.8 billion, nearly doubling RWE's renewables portfolio in the United States ...
In 2023, the electrical energy generation mix was 47.7% natural gas, 22.1% nuclear, 21.9% hydroelectric, 3.9% wind, 2% solar, 1.3% biomass, 0.3% petroleum, and 0.8% other. Small-scale solar including customer-owned photovoltaic panels delivered an additional net 3,973 GWh to New York's electricity grid in 2023.