Orange & Rockland Hosting Capacity Map
Feeder hosting capacity across Orange, Rockland, and Sullivan counties — on the same map as parcels, ownership, substations, and the live SIR interconnection queue.
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The smallest territory, where the queue decides everything
Orange & Rockland serves roughly 230,000 New York electric customers across Orange, Rockland, and Sullivan counties — the smallest footprint of the six Joint Utilities. A compact system means a short list of viable interconnection points, and each new application takes a meaningful bite out of what is left.
The result is that capacity here is unusually volatile. A circuit that looked workable can be fully subscribed by a single project, and a withdrawal can reopen a substation that had been written off. Reading the published capacity number without reading the queue beside it is close to meaningless in this territory.
A Con Edison subsidiary that sites like an upstate utility
O&R is owned by Con Edison, which misleads people who assume the two systems behave alike. ConEd's defining constraint is the secondary network grid beneath dense parts of New York City, which is genuinely hostile to distributed generation. O&R runs a conventional radial system across suburban and rural counties, so the familiar upstate logic applies: find a circuit with headroom, then work outward to the land around it.
Where that land is depends on the county. Rockland is dense and expensive, Orange is the middle ground, and Sullivan has the acreage — paired with longer circuits and Catskill terrain. Sungarden keeps O&R's hosting capacity map in sync and layers it with parcels and ownership, slope, wetlands, and New York's SIR queue, with alerts when a withdrawal frees up capacity at a substation you are watching.
What Sungarden loads for Orange & Rockland
- Feeder-level hosting capacity
- Feeder geometry and attributes
- Substations
- Parcel boundaries and ownership (New York)
- Interconnection queue, mapped to substations
Not yet loaded for this territory: feeder load curves.
Frequently asked questions
Where does Orange & Rockland publish its hosting capacity map?
O&R publishes feeder-level hosting capacity through its public Hosting Capacity Map, under the Joint Utilities of New York's commitments from the state's Reforming the Energy Vision proceedings. It is a standalone GIS viewer — circuits and capacity values, with no parcels, no ownership, and no queue context.
O&R is a Con Edison subsidiary. Does it behave like ConEd?
Not electrically. Con Edison's defining challenge is the secondary network system underneath dense parts of New York City, which is a hard place to interconnect distributed generation. O&R runs a conventional radial distribution system across suburban and rural counties, so it reads much more like an upstate territory than like its parent. Same corporate family, very different siting problem.
Why does queue position matter so much in O&R territory?
Because it is the smallest of the six Joint Utilities territories, serving roughly 230,000 New York electric customers. Fewer substations and fewer circuits mean a small number of viable interconnection points, and each application consumes a larger share of what is available. Capacity can go from comfortable to committed on the strength of one project, so watching the queue is not optional here.
Where in the territory is there actually room to build?
Rockland County is dense and expensive, with little large open land. Orange County offers a middle ground. Sullivan County, running up into the Catskills, has the most available acreage — with the tradeoff that circuits are longer, capacity thins with distance from the substation, and slope becomes a genuine screening constraint.
How current is the data in Sungarden?
Sungarden syncs Orange & Rockland's published hosting capacity and substation data on a regular schedule, and monitors New York's SIR queue continuously — including alerts when projects withdraw and capacity frees up at a substation.
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Sungarden is an independent platform and is not affiliated with or endorsed by Orange & Rockland. Hosting capacity and system data are sourced from Orange & Rockland's published datasets and are intended for screening only — not as a substitute for a utility interconnection study.