Oil power plant in New York, United States of America. Approximate location 40.6955, -73.3486.
OilNew YorkUnited States of AmericaOCGTMothballed
West Babylon is a 52.4 MW oil power plant in New York, United States of America. It ranks #3633 of 10,938 United States of America power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 1971, it is around 55 years old — an older, legacy facility. In context, oil supplies about 0.7% of United States of America's electricity; the national grid averages 384 gCO₂/kWh (43.0% low-carbon) (2025).
Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id USA0002521.
Known, modelled and calculated values are kept separate. Missing fields are shown as unavailable.
The capacity and/or fuel fields on this page include a source-backed provenance label from GEM, an official registry, Wikidata, OSM, or a cross-source match.
capacity: Wikidata P2109; fuel: WRI GPPD
At 52.4 MW, West Babylon is well above the median oil plant in United States of America (7.2 MW). Technically it is described as OCGT. Its current lifecycle status is “Mothballed” — so it is not yet, or no longer, generating at full output. Oil-fired plants burn heavy fuel oil or diesel, usually as peaking or backup capacity on islands and grids without gas pipelines; high fuel cost keeps their utilisation low.
Capacity comparison computed from the WRI Global Power Plant Database; fuel-type context is general engineering background.
The #116 largest oil power plant of 902 in United States of America by capacity.
United States of America has 902 oil power plants in this dataset, together about 40,022 MW of capacity.
Coordinates 40.6955, -73.3486 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
West Babylon is a 52.4 MW oil power plant in New York, United States of America, commissioned in 1971.
