Energy Requirements

Question / Comment: Response:

·         Community has more than sufficient energy which was told to us by Con Edison a few years ago.  In this area we have very small building, less than 6 stories.  Plant should be built where they are upgrading the buildings and building additional residential areas, such as Long Island City.

·         Don’t need another power plant. Con Edison sold its power plants at Waterside on E. 33rd Street in Manhattan and is enlarging the plant on E 14 Street in Manhattan. New York State Power Authority built a plant in our area. There are plants in Ravenswood and one being built in Long Island City; there isn’t a need for another one to provide electricity for the city.

·         None of the power will serve the local community.

·         We don’t seem to have any blackouts and we have lots of other power stations coming on-line.

·         It’s crazy to build a power plant when we are on the verge of all kinds of new alternatives, such as solar energy and fuel cells. We need to be looking to the future.

·         When we had electric shortages everyone complained, but nobody wants to build a power plant.  I think we should really think about this.  Electricity doesn’t come from anyplace.

·         We need to stop using so much energy all together. We need to start exploring energy alternatives and conserving energy.

·         Old power plant should be purchased and re-powered instead of building new one.
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The plant will promote competition, thereby stabilizing energy costs.  It will also add in-City generating capacity, thereby making New York City less vulnerable to power interruptions because it will be less dependent on imports from upstate and other regions.  The plant will strengthen the reliability of the electric transmission system, thereby helping to secure the continued delivery of electricity during very hot days, unexpected plant shutdowns, fuel interruptions, etc.

The power will be fed into Con Edison’s transmission networks, thereby serving New York City.  Brooklyn imports a significant amount of electricity and has relatively little new, highly efficient, generating capacity.  The State has a very aggressive conservation program but the State’s policy, and this Nation’s policy, is that conservation and alternate power sources alone cannot satisfy all electric needs.  A portfolio of all these measures is required.  Construction of a highly controlled gas cogeneration plant does not preclude other developers attempting to build alternate sources of power at other locations.  The proposed site allows a connection to Con Edison’s steam system at a strategic location.  Providing steam increases the efficiency of energy production significantly, resulting in less air pollution and lower cost energy.
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