{"id":137219,"date":"2026-02-18T12:00:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T12:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/137219\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T12:00:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T12:00:10","slug":"hochul-proposes-ratepayer-protection-plan-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/137219\/","title":{"rendered":"Hochul proposes ratepayer protection plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many homeowners and renters across New York state have been dealing with high utility bills this winter season.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In her State of the State address in January, Gov. Kathy Hochul proposed a &#8220;ratepayer protection plan&#8221; with the aim of reducing energy bills and building a reliable energy grid.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>For more on this, Capital Tonight was joined Tuesday by Laurie Wheelock, executive director and general counsel of the Public Utility Law Project, or PULP.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/nys-capital-tonight-time-graphic-promo960x540jpgjpg.jpeg\" class=\"hashed-image\" img-data-alignment=\"center\" img-data-width=\"percent-fifty\" alt=\"\" img-data-wrap-text=\"false\" img-data-editing=\"true\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Many homeowners and renters across New York state have been dealing with high utility bills this winter season.\u00a0&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":136885,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[206,205,109,116,204,202,19662,58190,3242,9,11,10,49,51,50,12,112,87,27,200],"class_list":{"0":"post-137219","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-albany-capital-region","9":"tag-app-capital-tonight","10":"tag-app-local-state-politics","11":"tag-app-ny-state-of-politics","12":"tag-capital-tonight","13":"tag-capital-tonight-interviews","14":"tag-capital-tonight-staff","15":"tag-casey-bortnick","16":"tag-environment","17":"tag-new-york","18":"tag-new-york-headlines","19":"tag-new-york-news","20":"tag-new-york-state","21":"tag-new-york-state-headlines","22":"tag-new-york-state-news","23":"tag-news","24":"tag-ny-state-of-politics","25":"tag-politics","26":"tag-top-stories","27":"tag-vod"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137219","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=137219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137219\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/136885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}