Unidentified speaker urges more pipelines to lower Long Island electricity and home-heating prices

At the Northport Natural Gas Power Plant on Long Island, an unidentified speaker said the administration plans to build more pipelines to reduce regional fuel shortages and "drive down the price of electricity and the price of home heating on Long Island."

The speaker described the facility as "1 and a half gigawatts" and "the largest power plant on Long Island powered by natural gas," framing pipeline expansion as a policy response to energy supply constraints. "We're gonna try to fix that problem with more pipelines," the speaker said, attributing the initiative to the broader administration agenda: "Key goal, the Trump administration."

The remarks were delivered as part of a site visit and were presented as goals rather than announcements of concrete projects, timelines or funding. The speaker did not specify which pipelines, developers, regulatory approvals, or permits would be needed, nor did they cite cost estimates or an implementation schedule.

Because the comments were a speech, and no formal motion, contract, or agency action was recorded in the transcript, there is no recorded vote or administrative step attached to the statement. Further details on proposed routes, permitting authority, or expected effects on consumer rates were not provided in the remarks.