Downstate needs electricity, but maybe not power lines
CHENANGO COUNTY – The agency in charge of operating the state’s electricity grid re-affirmed Monday that energy needs downstate, if unanswered, could create reliability issues in the near future. Power lines, however – such as the New York Regional Interconnection – weren’t endorsed as the state’s best or sole solution to those problems.
“These resources can come from a combination of generation and/or energy conservation measures located in these regions,” states a press release from the New York Independent System Operator, a federally regulated non-profit corporation that operates the grid and oversees wholesale electricity markets. “Or by resources in other areas combined with additional transmission capability into these downstate regions.”
Norwich resident Perry Owen, fearing NYRI’s power line (which would run through 44 miles of Chenango County) could cause unnecessary economic and environmental hardships in the area, believes conservation downstate is the first answer.
“The first thing that comes to mind is conservation,” said Owen. “This is the most important of the factors.”
Owen said co-generation facilities in Manhattan and other areas are allowing buildings to produce their own energy on site, and are in fact creating surplus energy that’s being put back into the grid.
“If this could happen on a regional basis, then there could potentially be a surplus of power,” he said. “Then the need for more power lines would be eliminated.”
Monday the NYISO released its Reliability Needs Assessment study, outlining possible electricity problems and solutions for the future.
When asked if 190-mile-long power lines were superior options compared to generation facilities, conservation efforts, or transmission lines closer to where energy is needed, NYISO representative Ken Klapp said the market will decide what the best solution is.
“It’s up to the market to determine what the solution will be. It’s not limited to one of those. It could be a combination,” said Klapp, referring to conservation, generation, or transmission. “That’s the beauty of this whole thing.”
When asked the same question, NYRI spokesman David Kalson said his project’s 190-mile-long solution was not superior, but rather just a part of the answer.
“It (NYRI) is not superior,” Kalson said. “It’s just that NYRI is a transmission line company, and transmission lines are part of a mix of interconnected things that need to be done, along with conservation and use of renewable, to address the state’s electricity problems.”
The NYISO is currently calling for market-based electricity solutions from energy developers. The energy market may not yield generation projects, however, considering the state does not have an approval authority for such facilities since the Article X siting law expired Jan. 1, 2003. The NYISO also makes concessions for developing long power lines further away from where the problems exist.
“There is a need (by 2016) for between 1,750 and 2,000 mega-watts of new resources, most of which would serve southeast New York,” the NYISO states. “However, those resources could be located outside of that area if combined with a sufficient increase in transmission capability.”
In the assessment, the NYISO said congestion – due to a 2 percent growth in electricity demand per year in Hudson Valley and New York City – and the loss of older generation facilities could have a negative effect on the grid by 2011, and grow worse by 2016 if ignored.
The NYSIO acknowledged its RNA study was conducted with the help of regulators and businesses involved in the electricity market.
“These resources can come from a combination of generation and/or energy conservation measures located in these regions,” states a press release from the New York Independent System Operator, a federally regulated non-profit corporation that operates the grid and oversees wholesale electricity markets. “Or by resources in other areas combined with additional transmission capability into these downstate regions.”
Norwich resident Perry Owen, fearing NYRI’s power line (which would run through 44 miles of Chenango County) could cause unnecessary economic and environmental hardships in the area, believes conservation downstate is the first answer.
“The first thing that comes to mind is conservation,” said Owen. “This is the most important of the factors.”
Owen said co-generation facilities in Manhattan and other areas are allowing buildings to produce their own energy on site, and are in fact creating surplus energy that’s being put back into the grid.
“If this could happen on a regional basis, then there could potentially be a surplus of power,” he said. “Then the need for more power lines would be eliminated.”
Monday the NYISO released its Reliability Needs Assessment study, outlining possible electricity problems and solutions for the future.
When asked if 190-mile-long power lines were superior options compared to generation facilities, conservation efforts, or transmission lines closer to where energy is needed, NYISO representative Ken Klapp said the market will decide what the best solution is.
“It’s up to the market to determine what the solution will be. It’s not limited to one of those. It could be a combination,” said Klapp, referring to conservation, generation, or transmission. “That’s the beauty of this whole thing.”
When asked the same question, NYRI spokesman David Kalson said his project’s 190-mile-long solution was not superior, but rather just a part of the answer.
“It (NYRI) is not superior,” Kalson said. “It’s just that NYRI is a transmission line company, and transmission lines are part of a mix of interconnected things that need to be done, along with conservation and use of renewable, to address the state’s electricity problems.”
The NYISO is currently calling for market-based electricity solutions from energy developers. The energy market may not yield generation projects, however, considering the state does not have an approval authority for such facilities since the Article X siting law expired Jan. 1, 2003. The NYISO also makes concessions for developing long power lines further away from where the problems exist.
“There is a need (by 2016) for between 1,750 and 2,000 mega-watts of new resources, most of which would serve southeast New York,” the NYISO states. “However, those resources could be located outside of that area if combined with a sufficient increase in transmission capability.”
In the assessment, the NYISO said congestion – due to a 2 percent growth in electricity demand per year in Hudson Valley and New York City – and the loss of older generation facilities could have a negative effect on the grid by 2011, and grow worse by 2016 if ignored.
The NYSIO acknowledged its RNA study was conducted with the help of regulators and businesses involved in the electricity market.
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