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PSEG Long Island provides electricity to 1.1 million customers in Nassau and Suffolk counties, and the Rockaway Peninsula of Queens, part of New York City. [27] This system operates under an agreement with the Long Island Power Authority, the state agency that owns the system, that went into effect January 1, 2014. [28]
The Long Island Power Authority is the owner of the system and holder of its debt. On July 29, 2013 the state legislature passed a law implementing Governor Cuomo's plan. On January 1, 2014 PSEG rebranded the LIPA system "PSEG Long Island", effectively removing the LIPA name from the public eye.
The Port Washington to Great Neck Overhead Transmission Line serves as a bypass of the 69 kV (69,000-volt) line paralleling the Port Washington Branch of the Long Island Rail Road. [2] It is designed to withstand winds of up to 130 miles per hour (210 km/h).
In 1936 it was described as "the key electric generating plant of the Long Island system," [4] and its control room managed LILCO's entire system. [3] In 1939 it was upgraded to burn both coal and oil, and in 1946 natural gas capability was added. [1] [2]
Port Jefferson Power Station is a fossil-burning power plant in Port Jefferson, New York on Long Island. It is operated by National Grid USA. Its four main steam turbine units were constructed between 1948 and 1960 by the Long Island Lighting Company (LILCO), with the older two decommissioned in 1994.
The Long Island Lighting Company, or LILCO ("lil-co"), was an electrical power company and natural gas utility for Long Island, New York, serving 2.7 million people in Nassau, Suffolk and Queens counties, [1] from 1911 until 1998.
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The plant was the result of a rule change in New York State that required investor-owned utilities to competitively solicit bids on new power generation to lower costs. In 1990, the Long Island Lighting Company (LILCO) requested bids to provide 150 MW of power that would be available by 1994, the second such competition in New York. [9]