National Grid customers: Speak up now or pay more later!
National Grid has asked the NYS Public Service Commission
(PSC) for big increases in your electric and gas delivery rates: 17.5% for electric
and 20.5% for natural gas. This translates to an increase of over $200 per year
for the average residential electric and gas customer.
In addition to this $331 million rate increase proposal, National Grid wants to
spend close to a billion dollars in ratepayers’ money to replace everybody's
meters with "smart meters." Inexplicably, they're proposing this
costly smart meter roll-out before even completing a pilot program to establish
how much value these meters would actually offer for ratepayers.
The bottom line is that this massive rate hike would hit upstate ratepayers hard. Please take a moment to tell the PSC to stand up for consumers and reject the rate hike.
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