The Cricket Valley Energy Center (CVEC) team is dedicated to maintaining clean air in Dover and its surrounding areas by reducing emissions, adhering to air quality permits, and continuously monitoring air quality to ensure the community’s safety.

Utilizing advanced, state-of-the-art technologies, the CVEC facility produces the lowest emissions rates of any combined-cycle natural gas turbine (CCGT) facility in New York State. In fact, CVEC plays an important role in improving regional air quality. By displacing older, higher-polluting oil, gas, and coal power plants, the CVEC facility helps reduce emissions of nitrogen oxides (NOx), sulfur dioxide (SO₂), and carbon dioxide (CO₂) from other energy producers. The CVEC team is currently renewing the facility’s Title V Air Pollution Control Permit to continue providing low emission power to New York.

The modern technology employed at CVEC includes a Continuous Emissions Monitoring System (CEMS) to monitor the air quality of the facility and confirm that the facility’s emissions are within ambient air quality standards by EPA to protect public welfare. To provide the community with access to important information about their air quality, the CVEC team sponsors a Weather and Air Quality Monitoring Station at Dover High School. Using the station’s air quality sensors, students and the public can access local nitrogen dioxide (NO₂), ozone (O₃), and particulate matter (PM_2.5) concentrations, along with a variety of weather indicators. A third-party research group recently conducted a study on this data and found that the CVEC facility did not contribute to the highest ambient air concentrations of NO₂, O₃, and PM_2.5. Please visit the Air Quality Monitoring page to learn more.