Company InformationCaithness Long Island Energy Center
The Caithness Long Island Energy Center (CLIEC) will be the most energy efficient and environmentally friendly power plant on Long Island. It will produce up to 350 megawatts of electricity.
CLIEC was selected as the on-Island component of a diverse portfolio of resources developed under a comprehensive request for proposals process in accordance with the procurement requirements of the State of New York.
The Caithness facility is being built in an industrial park in Yaphank in the Brookhaven Town Empire Zone. It will be further away from residences than any other power plant on Long Island. The Final Environmental Impact Statement issued under a State Environmental Quality Review Act process concluded that the Caithness project will have no negative impact on the environment or on public health.
A power purchase agreement between LIPA and Caithness Long Island was approved by the Office of the State Comptroller on November 6, 2006. Construction began in the spring of 2007.
CLIEC is expected to be completed and begin generating electricity for LIPA’s customers by the summer of 2009.
Download Caithness LI Energy Center Findings
Environmental Impact Statement
- Cover
- Table of Contents
- Foreword
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Executive Summary
- Section 1 Purpose Need
- Section 2 Project Description
- Section 3 Land Use
- Section 4 Community Facilities
- Section 5 Cultural Resources
- Section 6 Visual Resources
- Section 7 Socioeconomics and Environmental Justice
- Section 8 Traffic and Transportation
- Section 9 Air Quality
- Section 10 Noise
- Section 11 Geology Seismology and Soils
- Section 12 Infrastructure
- Section 13 Contaminated Materials
- Section 14 Terrestrial Ecology
- Section 15 Construction Impacts
- Section 16 Cumulative Impacts
- Section 17 Other Environmental
- Section 18 Alternatives
- Section 19 Natural Gas Lateral
- Section 20 References
- Section 21 Acronyms
- Response to DEIS Comments
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