Abstract
This article describes the first major privatization effort to becompleted at John F. Kennedy International Airport. The airportowner and operator, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey ,decided to seek private sector involvement in a capital-intensiveproject to expand and upgrade the airport 's heating and air condition-ing facilities and construct a new cogeneration plant. KennedyInternational Airport Cogeneration (KIAC) Partners , a partnershipbetween Gas Energy Incorporated of New York and Commun ity En -ergy Alternatives of New Jersey , was selected to develop an energycenter to supply electricity and hot and chilled water to meet theairport 's growing energy demand.Construction of a 110 MW cogeneration plant, 7,000 tons ofchilled water equipment, and 30,000 feet of hot water delivery pipingstarted immediately. JFK Airport's critical international positioncalled for this substantial project to be developed almost invisibly; nointerruption in heating and air conditioning service and no interfer-ence in the airport's active operations could be tolerated . Commercialoperation was achieved in February 1995 .
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