The Board of Public Utilities' Samuel A. Carlson Electric Generating Station is capable of generating 53.75 megawatts of coal-fired electricity and an additional 49.5 megawatts utilizing the gas turbine.

The Dow Street Intertie connects the station via three underground tie lines or two overhead lines to the New York power grid over National Grid power lines. The Jamestown system is entitled to receive 72 megawatts of hydropower from the power station at Niagara Falls. When the Carlson Generating Station is producing excess power to sell on the grid, the power travels from the plant to Dow Street and out to the grid over the same lines.