{"id":190670,"date":"2026-04-09T09:36:18","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T09:36:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/190670\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T09:36:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T09:36:18","slug":"new-york-targets-private-utilities-as-fix-for-energy-price-spike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/190670\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Targets Private Utilities as Fix for Energy Price Spike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New York Democrats are criticizing private, investor-owned utilities as they seek solutions to rising home energy prices that have discontented voters.<\/p>\n<p>Gov. Kathy Hochul has proposed new compensation disclosure requirements for utility executives as she and other state Democrats question whether corporate earnings are factored into ratepayer costs. She also wants to require the state\u2019s Public Service Commission to develop \u201cperformance-based targets\u201d that tie utility CEO and managerial compensation to energy prices for ratepayers, and consider adjustments to the utility corporation\u2019s return on equity based on that metric.<\/p>\n<p>Progressive lawmakers also want stricter scrutiny of how utilities recover profits when &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New York Democrats are criticizing private, investor-owned utilities as they seek solutions to rising home energy prices that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":190671,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[8967,76342,9,11,10,76341,64212,76343,4281],"class_list":["post-190670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-election-campaigns","tag-executive-compensation-disclosure","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-pay-for-performance","tag-public-utilities","tag-shareholder-voting","tag-state-budget"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190670","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=190670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190670\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/190671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}