National Grid Ventures wants to add two generators totaling more than 1,100 megawatts at the E.F. Barrett plant in Nassau County. | Antony 22 / Wikimedia Commons
After years where it looked like New York might never build another fossil fuel plant, there are growing signs of a gas renaissance.
Perhaps the clearest yet: National Grid Ventures, the unregulated arm of the utility company National Grid, has applied to the state’s grid operator to build three new gas units on the sites of its current, aging power plants on Long Island. The company has been talking about doing so for months…