New York Independent System Operator (NYISO)
The New York Independent System Operator runs the high-voltage grid and wholesale electricity market for New York State. On the map, NYISO has 1,101 power plants with 43 GW of capacity, natural gas the largest share at 23.7 GW. Its interconnection queue holds 190 active requests for 27.1 GW.
Capacity by fuel
1,101 power plants with 43 GW of capacity, planned generators left out.
- Natural gas: 23.7 GW from 104 plants (55%)
- Hydro: 4.6 GW from 154 plants (11%)
- Nuclear: 3.3 GW from 3 plants (8%)
- Oil: 3.2 GW from 68 plants (7%)
- Solar: 3.1 GW from 679 plants (7%)
- Wind: 3 GW from 35 plants (7%)
- Pumped storage: 1.4 GW from 2 plants (3%)
- Biomass: 398 MW from 28 plants (1%)
- Battery storage: 198 MW from 27 plants (under 1%)
- Other: 76 MW from 1 plant (under 1%)
Largest plants
- Robert Moses Niagara: Hydro, 2.4 GW, New York
- Ravenswood: Natural gas, 1.9 GW, New York
- Nine Mile Point Nuclear Station: Nuclear, 1.9 GW, New York
- Oswego Harbor Power: Oil, 1.6 GW, New York
- Northport: Natural gas, 1.6 GW, New York
- Roseton Generating Facility: Natural gas, 1.2 GW, New York
- Blenheim Gilboa: Pumped storage, 1.2 GW, New York
- Bowline Point: Natural gas, 1.2 GW, New York
- Cricket Valley Energy: Natural gas, 1 GW, New York
- Sithe Independence Station: Natural gas, 996 MW, New York
Planned and under construction
129 generators planned, under construction or testing, 7.8 GW in all, not counted above.
- Solar: 4.4 GW
- Wind: 2.6 GW
- Battery storage: 753 MW
- Biomass: 22 MW
- Natural gas: 4 MW
- Oil: 1 MW
Interconnection queue
190 active requests to connect 27.1 GW of new generation and storage, from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory's Queued Up data.
- Battery storage: 11.1 GW in 84 requests
- Solar: 8.8 GW in 83 requests
- Wind: 7.3 GW in 23 requests
States and provinces
- New York: 1,097 plants
- New Jersey: 4 plants
Sources
Power plants: EIA-860M (US); NRCan NACEI (Canada, Mexico); WRI GPPD (Mexico); OpenStreetMap via Geofabrik (Canada, Mexico gap fill); USGS USWTDB/USPVDB; EPA eGRID; Natural Earth admin-1; HIFLD control areas; location attributes from WorldPop (R2025A), Global Solar Atlas PVOUT, Global Wind Atlas 4, USFS Wildfire Hazard Potential, the USGS National Seismic Hazard Model and the previous publish's lines and substations; water distances from OpenStreetMap via Geofabrik; gas distances and county queue from the previous publish's EIA gas pipelines and LBNL Queued Up requests; nearest city from Natural Earth populated places; cooling degree days from NOAA NCEI nClimDiv county normals; elevation and slope from the Copernicus DEM GLO-30 (ESA, via AWS Open Data); water stress from WRI Aqueduct 4.0; ozone nonattainment from the EPA Green Book; drought from the U.S. Drought Monitor; tribal land from US Census TIGER/Line. License: ODbL (derivative database; EIA content is public domain, NRCan OGL-Canada, WRI GPPD CC BY 4.0; location attributes from WorldPop, Global Solar Atlas, Global Wind Atlas, LBNL Queued Up and WRI Aqueduct CC BY 4.0, USFS, USGS, EIA, NOAA, EPA, US Census and Natural Earth public domain, Copernicus DEM GLO-30 © DLR e.V. and Airbus Defence and Space GmbH, the U.S. Drought Monitor courtesy of NDMC)
Interconnection queue requests: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and GridTracker, "Queued Up". License: CC BY 4.0
ISO and RTO regions: HIFLD Control Areas grouped by EIA-930 reference tables membership; Natural Earth admin-1 provinces for IESO/AESO/HQ; carbon intensity from EPA eGRID (US) and ECCC National Inventory Report (Canada). License: Public domain (EPA eGRID, HIFLD); ECCC figures under the Open Government Licence – Canada