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New York power
Produced 3,909.9 gigawatt-hours of electricity in 2024 — enough electricity for about 390,000 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
Astoria Energy, in Queens, is the fifth-biggest of New York’s 100 natural gas plants by 2024 electricity produced, and tenth among all 908 reporting power plants in the state. It began operating in 2006.
It makes about 3,909.9 gigawatt-hours a year (a gigawatt-hour is a billion watt-hours, a way of counting electricity over time), enough for about 390,000 homes. Its technology is called combined cycle, meaning it reuses the hot exhaust from burning fuel to make extra power. It is air cooled and runs mostly on natural gas, with a small share of distillate fuel oil.
Generation profile
The plant can produce 595 megawatts of electricity at once, across 3 generating units. In 2024 it produced 3,909.9 gigawatt-hours in total, which works out to about 75% of what it could have produced running flat out all year — the pattern of a plant that runs through much of the year.
Nearby places worth exploring
Flushing Meadows Corona Park, home to Citi Field and the US Open tennis center, is a short trip away in Queens. The Astoria waterfront and Rockaway Beach are also well-known borough destinations.
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.
