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New York power
Produced 870.9 gigawatt-hours of electricity in 2024 — enough electricity for about 87,000 homes for a year.*
Air quality & health in Queens County
Queens County has a population of 2,252,196. Across five conditions the American Lung Association tracks — childhood asthma, adult asthma, COPD, lung cancer, and cardiovascular disease — it reports a combined 467,489 cases in the county.
No ozone grade is available for the county in the most recent report. For particle pollution — the fine soot and dust that can be breathed deep into the lungs — it received a grade of F.
Federal monitoring recorded 209 days of good air quality and 102 moderate days in the county over the most recent year, with 5 days rated unhealthy for sensitive groups.
Long-term exposure to air pollution has been linked to certain health conditions, particularly for children and older adults. Where electricity comes from affects how much combustion pollution is produced on the grid.
These figures describe the county as a whole and are not specific to this facility. Sources: American Lung Association – State of the Air (New York); U.S. EPA Air Quality Index.
The story behind this New York power plant
New York has 100 natural gas plants, and the Astoria Generating Station in Queens ranks #18 of 100 by the electricity it produced in 2024. The plant has operated since 1954 and draws on natural gas for nearly all of its fuel, using steam turbines (machines where hot steam spins a shaft to make power) and combustion turbines (machines that burn fuel directly to spin a shaft).
In 2024 it produced 870.9 gigawatt-hours, a gigawatt-hour being a very large unit of electricity, which is about 87,000 homes’ worth of yearly use. Its capacity, the most it could produce at one moment, is 958.0 MW, and a megawatt is a measure of power at a given instant. It runs four generators and draws water from the East River.
Generation profile
The plant can produce 958 megawatts of electricity at once, across 4 generating units. In 2024 it produced 870.9 gigawatt-hours in total, which works out to about 10% of what it could have produced running flat out all year — the pattern of a plant that runs only during periods of high demand.
Nearby places worth exploring
Astoria sits along the East River in western Queens, and the neighborhood’s waterfront is a familiar borough destination. Flushing Meadows Corona Park, home to Citi Field and the US Open tennis center, is a short trip away. Rockaway Beach is another well-known Queens destination.
Local school district
New York City Department Of Education
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* Homes-powered and emissions comparisons are annual estimates based on national averages from the U.S. Energy Information Administration. “Homes powered” describes a quantity of electricity, not direct service to specific households. How we calculate this.
