Case history study of integrated utilities at Lawrence Park Heat, Light and Power, Bronxville, New York

Abstract

Lawrence Park Heat, Light and Power Company is a small, privately owned, regulated public utility in Bronxville, New York. For more than 60 years, the company has furnished steam and electricity to a neighborhood of residential and small commercial customers, and steam to a community hospital. Until 1965, the plant also served the area with a water system that included wells, pumps, a distribution system, and fire hydrants. The remote location required self-sufficiency in utility service; so the developer met this need with the coal-fueled steam power plant. Power for the water pumps and direct-current generators was obtained from the steam plant, as was common in those times. Currently, the company serves 410 electric customers and 138 steam users. Annual electric sales for 1976 totaled 2,923,614 kWh and produced $266,860.35 revenue. Steam sales for the same period were 119,967 thousand pounds, producing revenues of $1,034,216.77. The hospital is the largest steam customer and represents about 30% of steam sales.