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Con Ed plant on the East River at 15th Street in Manhattan, New York City. Consolidated Edison, Inc., commonly known as Con Edison (stylized as conEdison) or ConEd, is one of the largest investor-owned energy companies in the United States, with approximately $12 billion in annual revenues as of 2017, and over $62 billion in assets. [3]
The Astoria Borealis was an industrial accident that occurred at a Con Edison substation in Astoria, Queens, New York City, on December 27, 2018. During the incident, a 138,000 volt coupling capacitor potential device failed, resulting in an arc flash , which in turn burned aluminum , lighting up the sky with a blue-green spectacle visible for ...
In June 2015, a mylar balloon floated into a Con Edison-owned switchyard, causing an offsite electrical problem resulting in an automatic shutdown of Unit 3. [85] On July 8, 2015, Unit 3 was manually shut down after a feedwater pump failure. [86] On December 5, 2015, Unit 2 automatically shut down after several control rods lost power. [87]
The power plant was decommissioned by Con Edison in 2005 and sold to private developers as part of the East River Repowering Project, which increased the capacity of the East River Generating Station at East 14th Street to replace the steam and electric output of the Waterside Generating Station. After demolition of the Waterside plant, the ...
During the Queens blackout, Con Ed workers gave out bags of ice to people in Astoria. The 2006 Queens blackout was a series of power outages that affected the northwest section of the New York City borough Queens in July 2006.
The New York Steam Company began providing service in lower Manhattan on March 3, 1882. [2] The company merged with Consolidated Edison on March 8, 1954. [2] [3] Today, Con Edison operates the largest commercial steam system in the world (larger than the next nine combined). [4]
The utility's suit, filed in June 2015, blamed the gas explosion on neglect by the city. Con Edison said the city was notified on multiple occasions about depressions on the street pavement. [25] In November 2015, an investigation by the New York Public Service Commission accused Con Edison of 11 violations of gas-safety regulations. The PSC ...
The New York City blackout of 1977 was an electricity blackout that affected most of New York City on July 13–14, 1977. [3] [4] The only unaffected neighborhoods in the city were in southern Queens (including neighborhoods of the Rockaways), which were part of the Long Island Lighting Company system, as well as the Pratt Institute campus in Brooklyn, and a few other large apartment and ...