{"id":134237,"date":"2026-02-15T11:46:26","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T11:46:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/134237\/"},"modified":"2026-02-15T11:46:26","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T11:46:26","slug":"cornell-energy-expert-on-high-utility-bills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/134237\/","title":{"rendered":"Cornell energy expert on high utility bills"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"512\" height=\"339\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/98ba762735f94935537c67380ea2cc40.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Rochester, N.Y. (WROC) \u2014 Many of us are now waiting for \u2013 and perhaps dreading \u2013 the next energy bill, which will reflect the universal effort to heat our homes during this brutal stretch of cold weather.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">On top of the increased usage is rising energy costs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Cornell Professor Rick Geddes says that rise is the result of basic supply and demand.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">With more people using more electricity, plus businesses like new data centers, the energy grid is maxed out, Geddes said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">He talked with Adam Chodak on Friday about why energy supply and delivery haven\u2019t kept up with demand and the steps necessary to play catch-up.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Watch the entire interview below:<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Copyright 2026 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rochesterfirst.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to RochesterFirst.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \"> For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to RochesterFirst. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rochester, N.Y. (WROC) \u2014 Many of us are now waiting for \u2013 and perhaps dreading \u2013 the next&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":134238,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[57183,57182,57184,9,11,10,49,51,50],"class_list":{"0":"post-134237","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-adam-chodak","9":"tag-cornell-professor-rick-geddes","10":"tag-energy-supply","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-headlines","13":"tag-new-york-news","14":"tag-new-york-state","15":"tag-new-york-state-headlines","16":"tag-new-york-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134237\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/134238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}