PULP has noted the lack of enforcement by the PSC of its orders permitting landlords to submeter and sell electricity to their tenants. See Lax PSC Enforcement of Submetering Orders […]
The PSC’s Submetering RegimeToday PULP filed yet another complaint with the Office of Consumer Services of the Public Service Commission (PSC) on behalf of a tenant who must buy electricity […]
Riverstone Residential Group, by its own account “the nation’s largest independently owned real estate management firm,” is charging tenants for natural gas service based on the total amount of gas […]
In an apparently unprecedented move, American Metering and Planning Services (AMPS), a company that provides billing and metering service to apartment building owners who submeter electricity to tenants, commenced a […]
The Public Service Commission (PSC) requires submeterers who resell electricity to apartment dwellers to agree, as a condition of permission to submeter, not to charge more than the customers would […]
Electricity prices in New York spiked this winter. See Mid-winter power price spike for NYsers on Con Ed bills. This could become a significant problem for submetered tenants, whose landlords […]
On March 4, 2010, Bay City Metering Company, Inc., an unregulated provider of utility services to owners selling submetered electric service to tenants, filed an application with the New York […]
The Related Companies, owner of Yonkers Riverview II, filed revised procedures and model notices for eviction of tenants who have not paid charges for electric service. The May 7, 2010 […]
Each year since 1981, the New York Legislature has appropriated funds to support the Public Utility Law Project of New York (PULP). Although small foundation grants and charitable donations occasionally […]
A 2007 research report funded by HUD, Benchmarking Utility Usage in Public Housing, concludes there is no discernible difference in energy use between public housing residents that pay for their […]