Bayonne Energy Center

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.

[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.

[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.