Will My Bill Go Up

New York

RG&E (Rochester Gas and Electric)

Investor-owned utility (Rochester Gas & Electric Corp), regulated by the New York Public Service Commission. The average New York home pays about $140 a month for electricity (EIA, 2024).

2 pending rate cases, about $52 a month more if approved

That is the ask, not the outcome: commissions usually approve less than the utility requests. Each case below links its docket and sources.

$140
average New York home today (EIA, 2024)
$191
if everything pending is approved as asked
+$52
a month

The ask, not the outcome. Your own bill scales with your usage; a home using twice the state average would see roughly twice the change.

Pending

1
Pending Base rate case

RG&E customers are on temporary rates while the commission reviews a much larger permanent increase request.

+$33a month
2
Pending Base rate case, gas

The 83-therm baseline here is monthly usage for a typical RG&E heating customer.

+$19a month

How to have a say

Rate cases are decided by the New York Public Service Commission, which takes written comments on every docket and holds public hearings on the big ones. Comment deadlines and hearing dates are on each case page above when we have them. The office that argues for households in these cases is the Utility Intervention Unit, NY Department of State; its filings are the plain-English version of the utility's numbers.

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Other New York utilities with cases

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2 pending about $67/mo if approved

Corrections and tips: [email protected]. Every figure links to its source on the case page.