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17-526: It was founded by Ellis Laurimore Phillips , an engineer, and a group of New York City investors, including George W. Olmsted . At the time, Long Island had multiple small power utilities that served individual villages; their business plan was to acquire these and interconnect them into an island-wide grid. In 1911, their first purchases were four small electric companies in Amityville , Islip , Northport and Sayville . The Glenwood Generating Station

34-569: A member of the board of directors of the Long Island Lighting Company. KeySpan KeySpan Corporation was the fifth largest distributor of natural gas in the United States . KeySpan was formed in 1998 as a result of the merger of Brooklyn Union Gas Company (founded 1895 by merging several smaller companies) and Long Island Lighting Company (LILCO), and briefly operated under the name MarketSpan following

51-479: The Brooklyn Gas Light Company , changing its name after a series of mergers in 1895. Rapid growth in the early 1900s prompted the company to establish a new headquarters at 180 Remsen Street. Noted Brooklyn architect Frank Freeman was commissioned to design the new headquarters, which was built in 1914. In 1962, a new 13-story headquarters was built at 195 Montague Street. The headquarters

68-800: The Long Island Lighting Company . During late 1939 and early 1940, he was a member of the board of directors of the Queens Borough Gas and Electric Company. As an adult, Olmsted was active in the Boy Scouts of America . In 1926, he purchased and donated the land for the Chief Cornplanter Council camp, now known as Camp Olmsted . He was the chairman of the BSA National Camping Committee. In 1931, Olmsted received

85-804: The Long Island Rail Road 's service woes and traffic snarls on the Long Island Expressway . In 1983, the Suffolk County legislature resolved that the county could not be safely evacuated in the event of an emergency at the LILCO built Shoreham Nuclear Power Plant . In an effort to show they were prepared for the event of a nuclear mishap at Shoreham, LILCO created a volunteer organization, staffed by Shoreham engineers and various staff from LILCO itself, named LERO (Local Emergency Response Organization) to provide assistance to

102-729: The Northport Power Station , constructed between 1967 and 1977, became Long Islands largest power plant. In addition to the large steam turbine plants, LILCO built a large number of smaller gas turbine generators in the early 1970s, most of them at the E. F. Barrett Power Station and at a new facility in Holtsville . LILCO was long notorious for its high rates. Indeed, according to a 1999 article in The New York Times , LILCO's rates were considered part of an "unholy trinity of life on Long Island", along with

119-734: The Silver Buffalo Award for his service to youth. Olmsted had a heart attack on Friday evening, January 12, 1940, and died at his home in Ludlow, Pennsylvania on Monday, January 15, 1940 at 10 p.m. Following funeral services at his home at 2:30 p.m. on January 18, he was buried at the Oakland Cemetery in Warren, Pennsylvania. He was survived by his wife and son, Robert G. Olmsted, who succeeded him in February 1940 as

136-672: The Glenwood Generating Station "one of the most modern power plants in the country," with both mechanical and electrostatic precipitators for dust and ash collection, as well as valve silencers and noise barriers . It was the first turbine generator mounted on an open deck in the Northeastern United States . Four units were also constructed at the Port Jefferson Power Station between 1948 and 1960. The four units of

153-495: The Long Island system," and its control room managed LILCO's entire system. LILCO greatly increased its generating facilities to meet increasing power demands created by Long Island's postwar population growth. In the 1950s, two new units were constructed at the Glenwood Generating Station, and two at the new E. F. Barrett Power Station , and one at the new Far Rockaway Power Station . At the time The New York Times called

170-552: The deal being subject to regulatory approval and endorsement by the shareholders of the two companies. In 2007 National Grid plc announced the completion of the acquisition. KeySpan received a 100% rating on the Corporate Equality Index released by the Human Rights Campaign starting in 2004, the third year of the report. The Brooklyn Union Gas Company was originally established in 1825 as

187-548: The merger. On November 8, 2000, KeySpan acquired Eastern Enterprises, Eastern's natural gas distribution subsidiaries including Boston Gas Company, Colonial Gas Company and Essex Gas Company; Eastern's unregulated businesses including ServicEdge Partners, the largest unregulated provider of residential HVAC equipment installation and services in Massachusetts ; and EnergyNorth Natural Gas in New Hampshire . It also

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204-527: The public. Hurricane Gloria hit Long Island on September 27, 1985, but power was not fully restored until October 8. The utility's poor response to the storm further eroded public confidence in LILCO's ability to handle an emergency and placed increased pressure to shutter the Shoreham Nuclear Power Plant. In the end, in a political decision born from LILCO's inability to present a viable evacuation plan for Suffolk County, Shoreham

221-654: Was an American businessman who founded the Long Island Lighting Company in 1911. He was also a philanthropist and led the National Executive Board of the Boy Scouts of America . Born in Ridgway, Pennsylvania on May 18, 1874, George W. Olmsted was a son of Samuel Ashbel Olmsted and Frances (Welch) Olmsted. He was also related to landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted , the designer of New York City's Central Park . On June 17, 1904, Olmsted married Iva Catherine Groves. In 1911, Olmsted founded

238-681: Was closed down in 1992 after never having operated at more than minimum power for testing purposes. On March 5, 1998, final Federal approval was received for LIPA to take over LILCO's electrical transmission network. The deal was completed later that year. LILCO's power distribution assets were bought by the Long Island Power Authority (LIPA), a public authority . The rest of LILCO, including its electrical generation and natural gas businesses, merged with Brooklyn Union Gas to form KeySpan , which continued to run LILCO's old transmission network under contract with LIPA. KeySpan

255-419: Was constructed from 1928 to 1931. The extra generating capacity was needed due to a sixfold increase in Long Island's electricity demand from 1910 to 1925. The expansion also reflected LILCO's then-novel philosophy of using few centralized power plants interconnected by transmission lines, rather than many small plants distributed through the region. In 1936 it was described as "the key electric generating plant of

272-611: Was taken over by National Grid USA in 2007. National Grid handed control of Long Island's electrical transmission system to New Jersey utility Public Service Enterprise Group in 2014. All locations are in New York. In addition to the major plants, LILCO constructed smaller gas turbine plants at the above facilities and in East Hampton North , Holtsville , Southampton , Southold , and West Babylon . George W. Olmsted George Welch Olmsted (1874 – 1940)

289-550: Was the operator of the Long Island Power Authority 's electrical grid, which had previously been part of LILCO before LIPA took it over in 1998. KeySpan had its headquarters in Brooklyn , New York, USA and employed 9,700 people. In February 2006, National Grid USA , a wholly owned subsidiary of National Grid plc of the United Kingdom , announced that it had agreed to buy KeySpan for $ 7.3 billion (£4.1 billion) in cash,

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