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The Holbrook Superconductor Project is the world's first production superconducting transmission power cable. [1] The lines were commissioned in 2008. [2] The suburban Long Island electrical substation is fed by a 600 meter long tunnel containing approximately 155,000 meters of high-temperature superconductor wire manufactured by American Superconductor, installed underground and chilled to ...
Ravenswood Generating Station is a 2,480 megawatt power plant in Long Island City in Queens, New York City, owned and operated by LS Power/Helix Energy Solutions Group. [1] [2] Originally fuelled by coal, the plant has been fueled primarily by fuel oil (no. 6) and natural gas since 1971. [1] [3] An early proposal included a nuclear power ...
[3] [1] [4] The average depth of the undersea section is 10–15 feet (3.0–4.6 m) below the Long Island Sound's seabed. [1] Y-49 is one of five undersea transmission lines connecting between Long Island and the Continental United States as of 2021 (four of which are operated by NYPA). [5]
East Side Access (ESA) is a public works project in New York City that extended the Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) two miles from its Main Line in Queens to the new Grand Central Madison station under Grand Central Terminal on Manhattan's East Side.
Northport Power Station is the largest power generation facility on Long Island.As of 2021, Northport Power Station consists of four steam turbine units with a nameplate capacity of 387.0 MW each, as well as one gas turbine unit with a nameplate capacity of 16.0 MW, for a total of 1564 MW. [7]
Long Island Power Authority (LIPA, "lie-pah") is a municipal subdivision [1] of the State of New York that owns the electric transmission and electric distribution system serving all of Long Island and a portion of New York City known as the Rockaways.
The Coney Island Yard Electric Motor Repair Shop is a historic motor repair shop for subway trains located at the Coney Island Complex. It was built between 1925 and 1927 and is a simple two-story, box-shaped brick-clad building lit by multiple banks of large, multi-paned windows and a massive sawtooth skylight .
The land was valuable, and the New York Central opted to purchase steam from the New York Steam Corporation rather than continue producing it. The decision eliminated the need for the steam plant in the M42 basement, allowing it to become a new electrical substation. [17] The Waldorf Astoria building opened on the 50th Street Plant's site in ...