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NYISO (New York)
One new gas plant in the queue, and not before 2032.
~0GW
Signed, near-term gas
23GW
Existing gas
~0GW
Planned gas
Signed, near-term gas = merchant projects with a signed interconnection agreement and requested operation by 2028, from the ISO's own queue, with ownership checked project by project where the queue does not name developers. Existing and planned from EIA-860M, August 2026.
Updated October 2026 from NYISO's interconnection queue of September 2026. Existing and planned gas are from EIA-860M, August 2026.
NYISO is the clearest case of a closed door for new gas. It has about 23 GW of existing gas. Its queue now holds one new gas plant, a 624 MW combined-cycle project in Zone C requesting operation in February 2032, plus two capacity-only uprate requests at existing plants. Nothing is signed and due by 2028, so the signed, near-term gas figure is zero.
The queue is otherwise renewables, storage and transmission. New York's 2040 zero-emission electricity mandate makes new long-lived, unabated gas generation increasingly difficult to justify.
For a data center needing firm gas, New York is not a supply market. Firm power there depends on the existing fleet, transmission, storage and imports, under a policy regime actively working to reduce thermal generation.
Like California, the NYISO question worth analyzing is how a decarbonizing grid absorbs large new loads, which is a demand-side and transmission question.
An earlier version of this page said the queue held no gas projects; the earlier check missed NYISO's fuel codes.