ALBANY – The Public Utility Law Project of New York, Tuesday, filed a motion to deny the Central Hudson gas and electric rate cases. The State Public Service Commission is currently reviewing the application from the utility.
The group said it felt compelled to file after hearing the public’s concerns about the company’s billing problems raised at recent public hearings in Catskill, Kingston, Poughkeepsie and Newburgh.
Two area lawmakers, one federal and the other state, immediately announced their support for PULP’s call.
Congressman Pat Ryan (D, NY-18) said it is “absolutely unacceptable for Central Hudson to raise costs on our hard-working families, who are already under serious financial pressure, especially until it fixes every one of its billing issues.”
State Senator Michelle Hinchey (D, Saugerties) said PULP’s motion to kill the rate increase plan is “spot on.”
She said ratepayers have “reached a point where we have to use every tool at our disposal to protect people from these unjust rate hikes, and this motion is one of them.”
Central Hudson has filed for an electric rate increase of 16 percent and natural gas increase of 19 percent.
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