Lederle Laboratories

🔥 Natural GasIndustrial CHP23 MW capacity

144th largest plant in New York · 4453rd nationally

Lederle Laboratories is a natural gas power plant in New York with a nameplate capacity of 23.4 MW. It generates roughly 122.0k MWh per year — enough to power about 11,620 average U.S. homes.

Its capacity factor of 60% puts it in the middle range — running steadily but not full-time. At 673 lb CO₂/MWh, its emission rate sits below the national grid average of roughly 800 lb/MWh.

PeakingMid-meritBaseload0%40%80%100%60%
Mid-merit — steady but not full-time

Month by month in 2024

100% capacity0Jan: 15.7k MWh (90% of capacity)JFeb: 13.7k MWh (87% of capacity)FMar: 13.1k MWh (75% of capacity)MApr: 8.4k MWh (50% of capacity)AMay: 12.8k MWh (73% of capacity)MJun: 12.2k MWh (72% of capacity)JJul: 13.1k MWh (75% of capacity)JAug: 13.4k MWh (77% of capacity)ASep: 11.5k MWh (68% of capacity)SOct: 9.0k MWh (52% of capacity)ONov: 13.6k MWh (81% of capacity)NDec: 13.4k MWh (77% of capacity)D

Ghost bars are each month's theoretical maximum (23.4 MW nameplate × hours in the month). Filled bars are actual net generation reported to EIA Form 923. The gap between them is capacity factor made visible.

Capacity23 MWnameplate
Annual Generation122.0k MWhEPA eGRID
Capacity Factor60%of theoretical max
Annual CO₂41.1kmetric tons

Location

Plant NameLederle Laboratories
OperatorVeolia Na - Municipal & Commercial Business
CityPearl River
CountyRockland County
StateNew York
ZIP10965
Coordinates41.07720, -74.01810

This plant highlighted in navy-ringed pin; other generators within 25 miles shown as fuel-colored dots.

Natural GasOilHydroelectricSolar

Generators (5)

IDTechnologyFuelCapacityStatusOnline
GEN1Natural Gas Fired Combined CycleNatural Gas8.3 MWOperating1991
GEN2Natural Gas Fired Combined CycleNatural Gas8.3 MWOperating1991
TG4Natural Gas Fired Combined CycleNatural Gas3.1 MWOperating1997
GEN3Natural Gas Fired Combined CycleNatural Gas2.2 MWOperating1990
3ANatural Gas Fired Combined CycleNatural Gas1.5 MWOperating1998

Emissions (annual)

CO₂41.1k metric tons
NOₓ93 metric tons
CO₂ Rate673 lb/MWh
This plant673 lb/MWhU.S. grid average800 lb/MWhNatural gas combined-cycle average900 lb/MWhCoal plant average2,100 lb/MWh

Annual totals and CO₂ rate reported by EPA eGRID for 2023. Reference averages are approximate U.S.-wide figures from the same dataset.

Grid context

NERC RegionNPCC
Balancing AuthorityNew York Independent System Operator

About Natural Gas plants

Natural gas plants are the workhorse of the modern grid. Combined-cycle units achieve very high efficiency and can ramp up and down quickly to balance variable renewables. They emit roughly half the CO₂ per MWh of coal and far less of other pollutants, but they still release upstream methane during fuel extraction.

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