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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 ...
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 ...
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]
Con Edison is now the largest operator of the New York City steam system, which is the largest commercial steam system in the world with more than 100 miles (160 km) of steam pipe. [ citation needed ] It provides steam service to nearly 2,000 customers serving more than 100,000 commercial and residential establishments in Manhattan south of ...
The fires erupted along an Amtrak train route in the borough near a Con-Ed plant just after 2 p.m. following a transformer explosion at a substation on Uniondale Road, according to FDNY.
[27] [28] In the late 1960s, the plant was capable of burning coal and fuel oil and had a total capacity of 2,273,000 pounds (1,031,000 kg) of steam per hour, which was more steam than all of Con Edison's other facilities combined. [29] The use of coal was discontinued by the early 1970s and the plant's coal handling facilities were demolished.
Edison power plant in Williamsport, Maryland, after the March 18, 1936 flood, surrounded by water from the Potomac River. The facility later became the R. Paul Smith Power Station.
A judge sentenced a Florida power company for a power plant explosion that killed five workers. On Friday, Tampa Electric Company (TECO) received the sentence after they pleaded guilty to ...