Astoria Generating Station

EIA-860 lists generator ST5 with this operating date.

EIA-860 lists generator 1 with this operating date.

Consolidated Edison completed sale of the Astoria Generating Station, Gowanus, and Narrows facilities to Orion Power Holdings-backed Astoria Generating Company for $550 million. Orion assumed ownership effective August 20, 1999.

Orion Power Holdings filed a Preliminary Scoping Statement for a proposed repowering of Astoria Generating Station with the New York State Board on Electric Generation Siting and the Environment. The proposal called for replacement of four large boilers with highly efficient gas turbines, estimated at $750 million capital cost and approximately 1,840 MW output, with two implementation phases planned for mid-2004 and late 2005.

New York siting authorities voted to approve the proposed 1,816 MW combined-cycle repowering of Astoria. However, available current plant records do not show that the proposed replacement facility was built.

Madison Dearborn Partners completed acquisition of Astoria Generating Company and related Orion Power Operating Services Astoria entities from Orion Power Holdings (a Reliant subsidiary). The transaction established a new Madison Dearborn-controlled entity to own and operate the Astoria facilities.