Dive Summary:

• SEF Industries, a New York City-based developer, has proposed to build a floating power plant (FPP) in New York City in response to New York State’s Energy Highway Initiative.
• The FPP would be located in NYC’s Hudson River and involve a “portable” 79-megawatt natural gas plant on a waterborne vessel parked in the Wallabout Channel near the Brooklyn Navy Yard. The water-bound location of the plant will help supply power despite disaster conditions on the streets.
• The FPP will have “the unique ability to rapidly move under its own propulsion via waterway to locations where critical electricity users such as hospitals and other vital infrastructure are clustered and to supply their full power requirements during periods when they have been impacted by an outage,” SEF says.

Dive Summary:

... “A very significant benefit of the FPP is its ability to service areas where street access is unavailable in a disaster zone. Land-based trailer-mounted generators are unreliable in disaster situations since they depend upon clear streets and regular refueling by truck delivery every 6-8 hours.” ...