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Op-Ed | New Yorkers need a cop on the beat for their energy bills
Every month, the same scene plays out at kitchen tables across New York. A family opens the gas and electric bill, sees the number jump again, and starts doing the math: What can we cut this month?
They had no say in that bill, but they’re the ones scrambling to pay it.
And far too many can’t. As of this year, more than 1.2 to 1.3 million New Yorkers are behind on their utility bills — owing between $1.8 and $2.3 billion. In New York City and Westchester alone, nearly 16% of Con Edison customers ended 2024 in arrears, with almost $950 million owed. That is not a statistic. That is a picture of families underwater, seniors on fixed incomes falling further behind, and small businesses carrying balances they can’t absorb.
NYS Comptroller candidate Raj Goyle wants to take utility hikes out of hands of bureaucrats: ‘Getting squeezed’
A candidate running to become the state’s financial watchdog wants to take New York’s ever-increasing gas and electric bills out of the hands of industry-affiliated bureaucrats.
Democrat Raj Goyle — who’s looking to primary incumbent Comptroller Tom DiNapoli — wants to audit the utility companies perpetually asking for the OK to charge customers more because ratepayers need a “cop on the beat.”
Goyle blasted DiNapoli for not doing enough to scrutinize the state Public Service Commission, which he claimed has been a “rubber stamp” as it reviews and approves rate increases for Con Edison, National Grid and other providers.
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