The Power Authority continues to attract national attention as it breaks new ground in several other areas of alternative, renewable energy sources that provide customers with on-site ways to generate or capture energy.

NYPA, a national leader in fuel cells, has installed 13 stationary units, with a total capacity of about 2.65 megawatts, to demonstrate reductions in air pollution and the advantages of localized power production.

A natural-gas-powered fuel cell at New York City's Central Park police precinct drew international notice following the August 2003 blackout by providing electricity for the facility without interruption throughout the emergency.

A natural-gas-fueled installation at the North Central Bronx Hospital made it one of the first medical facilities in the nation to generate electricity from a fuel cell on the premises, and another fuel cell is installed at the New York Aquarium in Coney Island, Brooklyn.

NYPA received accolades for installing and operating one of the world's first fuel cells to run on anaerobic digester gas, a byproduct of wastewater treatment, at the Westchester County Wastewater Treatment Plant in Yonkers. The Power Authority has since installed additional fuel cells, also powered by renewable waste gas, at four wastewater treatment plants operated by the New York City Department of Environmental Protection in the Bronx, Brooklyn and Staten Island.