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Con Edison is seeking an 11.4% hike to electric bills and 13.3% gas hike \u2014 largely thanks to green-energy mandates that Gov. Kathy Hochul embraced along with the rest of the party. Jack Forbes \/ NY Post Design<\/p>\nNew York\u2019s state Public Service Commission just OK\u2019d big National Grid rate increases that\u2019ll hike many upstate utility bills by $600 a year \u2014 fueling outrage Democrats will soon feel.<\/p>\n
Downstate, Con Edison is seeking an 11.4% hike to electric bills and 13.3% gas hike \u2014 largely thanks to green-energy mandates that Gov. Kathy Hochul embraced along with the rest of the party.<\/p>\n
The \u201cclimate agenda\u201d is delivering pain we\u2019ve long warned of, in New York and New Jersey.<\/p>\n
Con Edison is seeking an 11.4% hike to electric bills and 13.3% gas hike \u2014 largely thanks to green-energy mandates that Gov. Kathy Hochul embraced along with the rest of the party. Jack Forbes \/ NY Post Design<\/p>\n
Across the Hudson, electric bills as much as tripled this summer \u2014 and could cost Democrats the Jersey governor\u2019s race.<\/p>\n
\u201cOnce they realize that Democrats\u2019 bungled energy policies are to blame for their exploding utility bills as well, it could blow November\u2019s race wide open,\u201d warned Bethany Mandel<\/a> last week.<\/p>\n Yes, GOP Gov. Chris Christie shares in the blame for the Garden State\u2019s madness, but it started with the Democrats before him and accelerated under Dem Gov. Phil Murphy, who let the Oyster Creek nuclear power plant close in 2018 and aggressively shut down fossil fuel-powered electricity sources.<\/p>\n New York\u2019s worst-in-the-nation Climate Action Plan began under Gov. Andrew Cuomo but then Hochul doubled down on closing reliable natural-gas power plants and pretending expensive \u2014 and less reliable \u2014 solar and offshore wind<\/a> installations could not only replace them, but make up for growing electric demand.<\/p>\n \t\t\tMore From\t\t\t\t\t\t\tPost Editorial Board<\/p>\n Both states are using more electricity than ever \u2014 even as \u201cdecarbonization\u201d prevented supply from growing to match.<\/p>\n Even without soaring power demands for data centers and AI, green policies that push ever-more consumers to need electricity for cooking, home heating and vehicles put added strain on the grid.<\/p>\n