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New York power
Produced 42.5 gigawatt-hours of electricity in 2024 — enough electricity for about 4,300 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
Of the 100 natural gas plants in New York, Bayswater Peaking Facility in Far Rockaway, Queens ranks #51 by electricity produced in 2024, right in the middle of the pack. It began operating in 2002 and uses one natural gas fired combustion turbine, which works like a jet engine that burns gas to spin a generator.
Its capacity is 60.5 MW, or megawatts, a measure of the most power it can deliver at once. In 2024 it produced 42.5 gigawatt-hours, a unit of electricity over time, which is about 4,300 homes’ worth of yearly use. As a peaking plant, it mainly runs when demand is high.
It is a modest, occasional presence.
Generation profile
The plant can produce 60 megawatts of electricity at once, across 1 generating unit. In 2024 it produced 42.5 gigawatt-hours in total, which works out to about 8% 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
Far Rockaway sits on the Rockaway peninsula in Queens, near Rockaway Beach, a popular shoreline destination. Elsewhere in the borough, Flushing Meadows Corona Park is home to Citi Field and the US Open tennis center, and the Astoria waterfront is another well-known spot.
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.
