Bayonne Energy Center

Bayonne Energy Center
Bayonne Energy Center is seen at far right of industrial area of Constable Hook
Map
CountryUnited States
LocationConstable Hook
Bayonne, New Jersey
Coordinates40°39′18″N 74°05′39″W / 40.655023°N 74.094267°W / 40.655023; -74.094267
StatusOperational
Commission date2012
OwnerMorgan Stanley private investment fund
OperatorTigerGenCo LLC
Thermal power station
Primary fuelNatural gas
Power generation
Units operational10
Nameplate capacity640 MW
[edit on Wikidata]

Bayonne Energy Center is a power plant on Constable Hook in Bayonne, New Jersey originally built as a joint venture between Hess Corporation and ArcLight Capital Partners.[1][2][3] It is operated by EthosEnergy.[4]

The 644-megawatt natural gas-fired plant came on line in 2012.[5] It connects to a 6.5 mile, 345-kilovolt power line under the Upper New York Bay connecting with a Consolidated Edison substation in Gowanus in Brooklyn, New York[6][7] which is the longest XLPE cable in the world.[8][9]

The submarine cable portion of the project is one of the most deeply buried submarine cables at 15 feet below New Jersey-New York Harbor bottom. On behalf of the Project, regulator permit applications were prepared and submitted to the New York State Department of Public Service (Article VII), the US Army Corps of Engineers New York District (Sections 10/404), the New York Department of Environmental Conservation, the New York Department of State, and the New York Office of General Services.[10]

In 2014, Hess relinquished it interest in the plant to ArcLight.[11] which later sold it to Macquarie Infrastructure Company.[12] The current owner, a Morgan Stanley investment fund, purchased the plant in 2018.[13]

In 2018, a 120-megawatt expansion (Bayonne Energy Center II) came online.[14] Bayonne Energy Center II was one of the three natural gas-fired plants in the New York metropolitan area that came online to support electricity needs before the decommission of the last nuclear reactor of the Indian Point Energy Center in 2021. The other two plants were Cricket Valley Energy Center (1,100 MW) and CPV Valley Energy Center (678 MW).[15][16]

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  2. ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2015-09-24. Retrieved 2014-12-30.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  3. ^ "Proposed Bayonne power plant not winning fans on Staten Island". SILive.com. 12 October 2009. Retrieved 30 December 2014.
  4. ^ http://www.woodgroupgts.com/media/Pages/Bayonne-Energy-Center.aspx http://cloud-computing.tmcnet.com/news/2014/10/16/8070273.htm
  5. ^ "Bayonne gas-fueled power plant is on schedule for summer opening". NJ.com. 24 May 2012. Retrieved 30 December 2014.
  6. ^ "BAYONNE ENERGY CENTER POWER CABLE INSTALLATION - Caldwell". Retrieved 30 December 2014.
  7. ^ "Caldwell Marine International, Submarine Utility Operations, the Bayonne Energy Center (BEC) Project". Archived from the original on 2014-12-30. Retrieved 2014-12-30.
  8. ^ World’s longest 345 kV AC submarine XLPE cable system Archived December 30, 2014, at the Wayback Machine
  9. ^ "ABB sets new power cable record in New York Harbor". Retrieved 30 December 2014.
  10. ^ "Bayonne Energy Center | ESS Group, Inc. - Environmental Consulting and Engineering Services". essgroup.com. Archived from the original on 2016-12-04. Retrieved 2017-06-26.
  11. ^ "Hess : FERC Issues Order Authorizing Disposition of Jurisdictional Facilities re Bayonne Energy Center, LLC et al Under EC14-97". 10 July 2014. Retrieved 30 December 2014.
  12. ^ "Macquarie Infrastructure Company Enters into Agreement to Acquire Bayonne Energy Center". 3 February 2015.
  13. ^ "Macquarie Completes Sale of Bayonne Energy Center". 4 April 2018.
  14. ^ "Our Projects". Tigergenco. Retrieved 6 April 2024.
  15. ^ "New York's Indian Point nuclear power plant closes after 59 years of operation". Today in Energy. U.S. Energy Information Administration. 30 April 2021. Retrieved 6 April 2024.
  16. ^ Roston, Eric; Wade, Will (30 April 2021). "As Indian Point Goes Dark, New York Races to Swap Nuclear With Wind". Bloomberg. Retrieved 6 April 2024.