CLP Press Advisories
Join your neighbors and community organizations, including Citizens for Local Power, Nobody Leaves Mid-Hudson, Sane Energy Project, RUPCO, and Alliance for a Green Economy, at the online hearing on October 28, and tell the Public Service Commission why you object to the rate hikes.
Ulster County-based Citizens for Local Power (CLP), together with Poughkeepsie-based Nobody Leaves Mid-Hudson (NLMH), today delivered 1,500 postcards from Central Hudson residential customers to the Public Service Commission (PSC), presenting “New Year’s resolutions” for the Commission to consider when deciding the Central Hudson rate case, expected in late spring.
In a letter sent to the NYS Public Service Commission by the Ulster County-based non-profit organization, Citizens for Local Power (CLP), 131 elected officials from across the state have urged the Commission to reform the electricity rates of New York’s electric utilities by reducing the fixed charge, which can be up to five times higher than in neighboring states.
The NYS Public Service Commission will be holding a combination of public information sessions and hearings over the next three weeks to get public input on Central Hudson’s recently filed rate plan for 2017-2018, which cannot take effect until approved by the Commission. A rate plan sets the level of revenue that a utility can collect from customers through electricity and gas rates to run its business and also earn a PSC-approved return.
Policy to Affect Community Solar Projects and New Projects Serving Large Customers Beginning this Year; New Residential/Small Commercial Solar in 2020
The Public Service Commission (PSC) has issued an order enabling Community Choice Aggregation (CCA) in all of New York State, empowering communities with the opportunity to negotiate contracts for more favorable rates and cleaner electricity supply. As the electricity markets are being reorganized under the progressive Reforming the Energy Vision (REV) proceeding, CCA will become a powerful tool for communities at the local level, especially for customers including homeowners and small business owners, to engage in a meaningful way.
On Thursday, November 12, the New York’s Public Service Commission (PSC) will hold a public hearing at Kingston High School on major utility and energy reform proposals, beginning with a presentation by PSC staff at 6 pm and followed by public statements for the record at 7 pm.
The New York State Public Service Commission (PSC) is asking for public input on energy affordability and proposed reforms to its low-income programs. Hearings for the Central Hudson service territory will be held on Thursday, September 24, at Poughkeepsie Town Hall (1 Overocker Road), at two different times, and will be proceeded by information sessions: a 2 pm information session followed by a 3 pm public statement hearing; and a 6 pm information session followed by a 7 pm public statement hearing.
A proposal by Ulster County-based Citizens for Local Power (CLP) to investigate and develop a local power program as a demonstration project of the State’s Reforming the Energy Vision (REV) Initiative has been included as one of six demonstration projects recommended to the NYS Public Service Commission (PSC) by the Parties to the Central Hudson rate case.
The campaign against the takeover of Central Hudson by Canadian holding company Fortis, Inc., has energized mid‐Hudson municipalities. Among those invited to participate in the press conference are the mayors and supervisors of the seven municipalities that have voted unanimously to oppose the takeover, and other public officials who have spoken out against it.