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New York power
Produced 9.7 gigawatt-hours of electricity in 2024 — enough electricity for about 970 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, MER Queens in Elmhurst ranks #84 by the electricity it produced in 2024. It’s a small facility owned by Bloom Energy, with one generator rated at 1.2 MW (megawatts, a measure of how much power it can deliver at once). It began operating in 2017.
In 2024 it produced 9.7 gigawatt-hours (a unit of electricity; one gigawatt-hour is a million kilowatt-hours), which is enough for about 970 homes. It runs on natural gas using a technology classed as “Other Natural Gas,” and its generation ran at a capacity factor of 92 percent (the share of its maximum possible output it actually delivered).
Generation profile
The plant can produce 1 megawatt of electricity at once, across 1 generating unit. In 2024 it produced 9.7 gigawatt-hours in total, which works out to about 92% 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
Elmhurst sits in the heart of Queens, close to Flushing Meadows Corona Park, home to Citi Field and the US Open tennis center. Farther out, Rockaway Beach and the Astoria waterfront are 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.
