nationalgrid James P. Flannery 

Director 

Power Plant Operations 

July 28, 2011 

VIA Electronic Filing 

Hon. Jaclyn Brilling, Secretary 

NYS Public Service Commission 

Three Empire State Plaza 

Albany, New York 12223 

Re: Notification of Generation Unit Retirement 

Generator: National Grid Generation LLC 

Generating Units: Far Rockaway Unit 4 and 

Glenwood Units 4 & 5 

Dear Secretary Brilling: 

Pursuant to the notification requirements set forth in the Commission's Order Adopting Notice 

Requirements for Generation Unit Retirements, Case 05-E-0889, Generation Unit Retirement 

Policies and Procedures (issued December 20, 2005), National Grid Generation LLC ("National 

Grid Generation") hereby provides notice of its intent to permanently retire Unit No. 4 at the Far 

Rockaway Power Station (PTID# 23548) ("Far Rockaway 4") and Glenwood Power Station Units 

4 & 5 (PTID# 23550 and 23614, respectively) ("Glenwood 4 & 5") from service at a date to be 

determined, but currently anticipated in the Summer 2012. 

Far Rockaway 4 is a 100 MW (nameplate rating), gas-fired steam turbine unit located at National 

Grid Generation's Far Rockaway Power Station in New York, New York. Glenwood 4 & 5 are 

each 100 MW (nameplate rating), gas-fired steam turbine units located at National Grid 

Generation's Glenwood Power Station in Glenwood Landing, New York. 1 These units are 

interconnected to the Long Island Power Authority ("LIPA") in Zone K, and have provided energy, 

capacity and ancillary services to LIP A since 1998 pursuant to a long-term power purchase 

agreement, the Power Supply Agreement, dated as of June 26, 1997 (the "PSA"). Combined, these 

units have produced less than 2% of LIP A's total energy requirements in recent years. 

In consultation with National Grid, LIP A has elected to exercise a contractual right to remove Far 

Rockaway 4 and Glenwood 4 & 5 from the PSA upon completion of certain transmission upgrades 

that are necessary to permit the retirement of these units consistent with the New York Independent 

System Operator's (''NYISO") Technical Bulletin 185 and Attachment Y of the NYISO Open 

Access Transmission Tariff. Accordingly, the parties recently entered into an amendment to the 

PSA that provides for the removal of these units from the agreement. This PSA amendment will 

become effective upon receipt of required regulatory approvals, specifically (i) the approval of the 

1 In addition to Glenwood 4 &5, National Grid Generation owns two combustion turbine units and a peaking facility in 

Glenwood Landing, New York. The combustion turbine units and peaking facility at the Glenwood site are unaffected 

by this notice. 

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New York State Comptroller and the New York State Attorney General; and (ii) acceptance of the 

amendment for filing by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. 

National Grid Generation is retiring these units because they would be uneconomic to operate in 

the absence of a power purchase agreement with LIPA. Accordingly, National Grid Generation 

intends to retire Glenwood 4 & 5 and Far Rockaway 4 (independently of each other) upon LIPA 

posting notice to its OASIS that it has completed the necessary transmission upgrades to allow for 

retirement. These transmission upgrades are currently anticipated to be completed no later than 

June 30, 2012. 

National Grid reserves the right to rescind this notice in the event the PSA amendment fails to 

become effective, the anticipated transmission agreements are not completed, or the units otherwise 

fail to become retirement eligible. National Grid Generation is simultaneously providing a copy of 

this notice to the NYISO and LIP A. 

Thank you for your attention to this matter. 

Yours truly, 

~~~ 

cc: New York Independent System Operator 

Via Electronic Mail (generator retirement@nyiso.com) 

Paul A. DeCotis, LIP A 

Rick Shansky, LIPA 

Ed Petrocelli, LIP A 

Ellen S. Smith, National Grid 

John G. Cochrane, National Grid 

BrianT. McCabe, National Grid 

Sean P. Moore, National Grid 

Philip A. Decicco, National Grid