Naturally a paywalled article would be this misleading…

https://www.nyiso.com/documents/20142/2226333/2022-Gold-Book-Final-Public.pdf

Page 136 shows the facts on 41 Gigawatts of NYISO generation assets available to meet the 24 GW peak winter demand forecast. Renewables including nuclear and hydro total to 12.2 GW. This includes a whopping 0.132% of peak for solar, bearing in mind that peak winter load comes at night in NYC.

Therefore NYS can only meet half of the peak winter load demand with its nuclear, hydro, wind and other renewable power assets. The remaining half needs to be met by expensive imports or fossil assets, and you can bet that most of the dual fuel burners will be running on fuel oil due to natural gas curtailment.

I would be interested in seeing some normal load and consumption data in addition to annual capacity factors for installed assets. This would likely paint a better kWh picture. The kW picture will be pretty bleak for years to come. Still, I remain confident that we can put a good dent in it during our lifetime if we all do our part by reducing consumption during peak demand periods and doing your own research when demand is low.

You’re not understanding what this reply means by cleaning the wastewater before putting it into the heat exchanger system. The residents will be flushing oil, grease, bleach, ammonia, draino, and other hazardous chemicals that will require a lot of water chemistry maintenance to prevent corrosion of the heat exchanger, piping, tubing, strainers, filters, pumps, valves, sensors, and other components. There is also the frequent cleaning of the strainers and changing of the filters that will require a lot of electricity, materials and labor. The cost of labor and materials will eventually cause the preventive maintenance on these systems to be neglected to improve the bottom line of building operations. The system may be run into the ground from a preventive maintenance perspective and eventually abandoned after it is no longer financially viable to be maintained and operated compared to more traditional heating systems. A consultant will probably come in after 20 years and recommend another heating system tied to government incentives, and an EPC will be contracted to install it for a premium with taxpayer money. Inflation and taxes will increase to pay for the incentives and middle class Americans will have to work harder for the same standard of living until corporate tax rates are increased and a millionaires tax is implemented. The US capitalist machine cycle is inevitable and it is up to us to use it to our benefit through our right to petition, organize, and vote.

To bring foreign money back into the country after consumers like us sent the money out of the country by purchasing foreign manufactured goods over the past 30+ years.

Serious answer is because Niagara Falls is part of NYPA, providing 2600 MW of electricity to NYS.