**Exhibit 24**

 

POWEROF ATTORNEY

 

WHEREAS,AES NY, L.L.C., a Delaware limited liability company, acting inits capacity as general partner of AES Eastern Energy, L.P., a Delaware limitedpartnership (hereinafterreferred to as the Company), proposes to file with the Securities and ExchangeCommission under the provisions of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, asamended, an Annual Report on Form 10-K relating to the Company’sfiscal year ended December 31, 2004.

 

NOW, THEREFORE, the undersigned hereby appoints Dan Rothaupt and Amy Conley, acting jointly, his true and lawful attorneys-in-fact and agents with full power of substitution, for him and in his name, place and stead, in any and all capacities, to sign the Annual Report on Form 10-K and any and all amendments, and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto and all documents in connection therewith, making such changes in the Annual Report on Form 10-K as such persons so acting deem appropriate, with the Securities and Exchange Commission, granting unto said attorneys-in-fact and agents, acting jointly, full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary to be done in and about the premises, as fully to all intents and purposes as he might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorneys-in-fact and agents or their  substitute or substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done or by virtue hereof.

 

INWITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has executed this Power of Attorney this 31stday of March, 2005.

 

 
|   | /s/Kevin Pierce |   |
|--------|-----------------|--------|
|   |            |   |
|   | Kevin Pierce    |

 

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POWEROF ATTORNEY

 

WHEREAS,AES NY, L.L.C., a Delaware limited liability company, acting inits capacity as general partner of AES Eastern Energy, L.P., a Delaware limitedpartnership (hereinafterreferred to as the Company), proposes to file with the Securities and ExchangeCommission under the provisions of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, asamended, an Annual Report on Form 10-K relating to the Company’sfiscal year ended December 31, 2004.

 

NOW, THEREFORE, the undersigned hereby appoints Dan Rothaupt and Amy Conley, acting jointly, his true and lawful attorneys-in-fact and agents with full power of substitution, for him and in his name, place and stead, in any and all capacities, to sign the Annual Report on Form 10-K and any and all amendments, and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto and all documents in connection therewith, making such changes in the Annual Report on Form 10-K as such persons so acting deem appropriate, with the Securities and Exchange Commission, granting unto said attorneys-in-fact and agents, acting jointly, full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary to be done in and about the premises, as fully to all intents and purposes as he might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorneys-in-fact and agents or their  substitute or substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done or by virtue hereof.

 

INWITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has executed this Power of Attorney this 31stday of March, 2005.

 

 
|   | /s/Edward Convery |   |
|--------|-------------------|--------|
|   |              |   |
|   | Edward Convery    |

 

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