NYSEG wants to raise your rates! Here's what you need to know.

NYSEG Rate Case

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Video Playlist:

NYSEG Rate Case Hearing Binghamton 8/15/19

• youtube.com/playlist?list=PLR2Fd0qJHtcOy1cuVVgiVGugy8X-hRcTK
• TinyURL.com/NYSEGRateHearingBingoAug2019

Individual Videos

1. NYSEG Rate Increase! Public Hearing Info
   
   
   • youtube.com/watch?v=6Va0Oj1za8o&list=PLR2Fd0qJHtcOy1cuVVgiVGugy8X-hRcTK&index=1
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2. NYSEG Rate Case Hearing Binghamton 8/15/19 Info Session 1/8
   (audio improves at 4:15)
   
   
   
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3. NYSEG Rate Case Hearing Binghamton 8/15/19 Q+A 2/8
   
   
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4. NYSEG Rate Case Hearing Binghamton 8/15/19 Public Comments #1 -- 3/8
   
   
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5. NYSEG Rate Case Hearing Binghamton 8/15/19 Public Comments #2 -- 4/8
   
   
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6. NYSEG Rate Case Hearing Binghamton 8/15/19 Public Comments #3 -- 5/8
   
   • youtube.com/watch?v=3IEWgMECoRA&list=PLR2Fd0qJHtcOy1cuVVgiVGugy8X-hRcTK&index=6
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7. NYSEG Rate Case Hearing Binghamton 8/15/19 Public Comments #4 -- 6/8
   • youtube.com/watch?v=mZvLj74t0FQ&list=PLR2Fd0qJHtcOy1cuVVgiVGugy8X-hRcTK&index=7
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8. NYSEG Rate Case Hearing Binghamton 8/15/19 Public Comments #5 -- 7/8 
   
   
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9. NYSEG Rate Case Hearing Binghamton 8/15/19 Public Comments #6 -- 8/8
   • youtube.com/watch?v=bcBdhAdDO1o&list=PLR2Fd0qJHtcOy1cuVVgiVGugy8X-hRcTK&index=9
   • TinyURL.com/NYSEGRateHearingBingoAug2019-8 
10. NYSEG Rate Case Hearing Binghamton 8/15/19 Bill Huston Comments
    
    • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDb37hyOFSY&list=PLR2Fd0qJHtcOy1cuVVgiVGugy8X-hRcTK&index=10 
     

Press & Sun: 

• https://www.pressconnects.com/story/money/2019/07/26/want-complain-gas-rate-increases-heres-your-chance-new-york-nyseg-rochester-gas-and-electric/1829466001/
• https://www.pressconnects.com/story/news/local/2019/08/16/nyseg-rate-increase-new-york-public-comments/2017599001/

 NY PSC docket:

• Gas:
  http://documents.dps.ny.gov/public/MatterManagement/CaseMaster.aspx?MatterCaseNo=19-G-0379&submit=Search
• Electric:
  http://documents.dps.ny.gov/public/MatterManagement/CaseMaster.aspx?MatterCaseNo=19-E-0378&submit=Search

  
HOW TO MAKE A COMMENT:

• USPS:

     Hon. Kathleen H. Burgess, Sec. NYS PSC
     Three Empire State Plaza,
     Albany, New York 12223-1350.

• Opinion line: 1-800-335-2120

• WEB:  Go to www.dps.ny.gov,
     click “Search,” enter case number,
     then click “Post Comments”

• Email: secretary@dps.ny.gov.

• Comments are due by August 26

Case 19-E-0378 (NYSEG electric rates)
Case 19-G-0379 (NYSEG gas rates)
Case 19-E-0380 (RG&E electric rates)
Case 19-G-0381 (RG&E gas rates).

Talking Points:

https://rocpcc.org/our-work/rate-case/

Potential talking points: 

At the public statement hearings, tell YOUR story and experiences with utility bills &/or your opinion about our energy future.  Sample sentence starters might be: “When I receive my utility bill, I feel… “ or “I think that NY residents deserve a future that includes …” 

• End Investment in Gas Infrastructure.  Expanding gas infrastructure is both an environmentally and economically unsound investment and should be abandoned.  
  • Rather, subsidize beneficial electrification, which includes MORE funding for electric transit buses and school bus fleets, electric vehicle charging stations, and clean heating and cooling technologies [heat pumps].
• Develop income based programming and incentives for energy efficiency and heat pump technologies, so that everyone in our community can afford these technologies, and to meet the 5TBtu reduction in energy usage from heat pumps the State requires. 
• Improve our energy infrastructure to better accommodate renewable energy sources, including distributed energy resources (e.g., solar, battery storage).
• Improve storm preparedness and the resiliency of our electric grid to reduce power outages. 
• Reduce electricity fixed charges to $6.  RG&E/NYSEG has the highest electricity fixed charge in the state, at $21.38. Fixed charges unevenly impact low and moderate income residents who typically use less energy, but pay as much in fixed costs.
• End Winter Shut-offs.  Other utilities – including United Illuminating, a subsidiary of RG&E’s parent company – prohibit the inhumane practice of winter shut-offs due to inability to pay.  RG&E can too! Automatic referrals to energy efficiency and energy assistance programs should be standard practice for those struggling to afford their energy bills.
• Make them Go Green to earn green $$. Shift to a performance-based incentive structure built on achieving affordable green energy goals to reform NYSEG/RG&E’s revenue model.  
• Require that RGE collect the gross receipts tax when a municipality creates a Community Choice Aggregation (CCA) program. This would allow the City of Rochester and other cities in RG&E/NYSEG territory to procure affordable carbon-free electricity for all their residents and small businesses.
• Require consolidated billing so that community solar or other community distributed generation (CDG) projects would have their credits and costs on the same bill. Currently, the utility bill only includes the credits, requiring customers of CDG projects to get a second bill for the solar energy, which is slowing the growth of our local renewable energy industry.

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