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THE AUTHORITY’S FACILITIES
Generation
General Information
The Authority’s generating facilities and certain related capacity and generation information
are listed in the following table:
Authority Generating Facilities
Type
First Year
of
Operation
Total
Installed
Capability-MW
Net
Dependable
Capability-MW (1)
2010 Net
Generation
MWh (2)
St. Lawrence-FDR.......... Hydro 1958 912 735 6,611,236
Niagara........................... Hydro 1961 2,755 2,674 13,241,815 (3)
Blenheim-Gilboa ........... Pumped Storage 1973 1,160 1,140 (145,911) (3)
Flynn.............................. Gas/Oil 1994 170 135 942,487
SCPPs (4) ......................... Gas 2001 517 443 508,120
Small hydroelectric (5) ...... Hydro See note (5) 40 12 (6) 155,903
500-MW Plant ................ Gas/Oil 2005 500 462 2,944,714
Totals ......................... 6,054 5,601 24,258,364
(1) Summer capability period rating.
(2) Subject to NYISO adjustments.
(3) Net of pumping energy.
(4) Consists of 10 generating units located in New York City and one located in the service territory of LIPA.
(5) Consists of Ashokan and Kensico facilities, which were placed in service in 1982 and 1983, respectively, and facilities at the
Hinckley (Jarvis plant), Crescent and Vischer Ferry sites, which are part of Small Hydroelectric Development Project
No. 1 and which went into commercial operation on July 1, 1991.
(6) Consistent with NYISO filed tariff revisions to modify methodologies in calculating capability limited control run of
river small hydros.
St. Lawrence-FDR
The St. Lawrence-FDR Project consists primarily of the Robert Moses Power Dam located at
Massena, New York, and two additional dams. The construction and operation of the St. Lawrence-FDR
Project were authorized by a 50-year license issued to the Authority by the Federal Power Commission
effective as of November 1, 1953. By order issued October 23, 2003, a new 50-year license was issued to
the Authority by FERC (see ‘‘St. Lawrence-FDR Relicensing’’ below). Commercial production of power
started in July 1958. All power is generated at the Robert Moses Power Dam, which contains sixteen 57-
MW hydro-turbine generators having an aggregate nameplate capacity of 912 MW. Under the new
license, a specified amount of the plant’s output must be made available to neighboring states (see ‘‘St.
Lawrence-FDR Relicensing’’ below). For a discussion of litigation commenced by Native American
tribes claiming ownership of various lands within the boundary of the boundary of the St. Lawrence-FDR
Project, see “PART 1―APPENDIX D―Litigation―Item (a).”
St. Lawrence-FDR Relicensing
On October 23, 2003, FERC approved a comprehensive relicensing settlement agreement
reached by the Authority and numerous parties and issued the Authority a new 50-year license
(the ‘‘New License’’) for the St. Lawrence-FDR Project. Among other things, the New License
provides for the following:
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