New York State Assemblyman Michael Cashman says he would support New York\u2019s governor declaring an energy crisis to control electric and utility prices.<\/p>\n
The first bill that first-term Democrat introduced would restrict unreasonable utility rate and fee increases.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have to get it under control. We also need to get the Public Service Commission under control, hold guardrails, have accountability with auditing. And we also need the governor step forward to intervene because the costs are just too high.\u201d<\/p>\n
Cashman criticizes the utilities, noting they are making historically high profits while adding fees to ratepayers\u2019 bills.<\/p>\n
National Grid Spokesman Patrick Stella says utility bills are multi-faceted and a number of factors, including use, supply and delivery are affecting costs. He also notes that the region has not had a winter as cold for an extended period in several years.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe want customers to be able to afford the energy that we\u2019re delivering to them. So it\u2019s a concern we share and we\u2019re doing what we can to kind of control those prices at this point.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New York State Assemblyman Michael Cashman says he would support New York\u2019s governor declaring an energy crisis to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":135351,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":{"0":"post-135350","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-the-bronx","8":"tag-bronx","9":"tag-new-york","10":"tag-new-york-city","11":"tag-nyc","12":"tag-the-bronx","13":"tag-the-bronx-headlines","14":"tag-the-bronx-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135350","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=135350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135350\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/135351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}