An interesting petition was recently filed with the PSC by a submetering company, Bay City Metering, apparently as an agent of a landlord, 430 Realty Company LLC, seeking to modify […]
When an owner of a master metered building obtains an order from the PSC waiving the general prohibition of retail resale of electricity, tenants in rent stabilized housing are entitled […]
The Basics – The PSC Decides Customer Complaints over Utility ServiceThe Public Service Law and the Home Energy Fair Practices Act (HEFPA), enacted in 1981, have always provided for administrative […]
The Riverview II Tenants Association filed a Reply with the PSC May4 2009 in further support of their request for a stay of submetering. The reply shows how the landlord […]
Some landlords have won approval from the PSC to resell electric service to their residential tenants. Although the PSC orders typically contain a reference to compliance with the Home Energy […]
On April 7, 2008, PULP assisted an elderly tenant who resides at Hazel Towers, a 286 unit apartment building in the Bronx, in making a complaint to the PSC against […]
After its 1979 order expanding the scope of submetering from cooperatives and condominiums to rental housing, the New York Public Service Commission (PSC) over the years approved a variety of […]
Environmental groups reacted with consternation when Governor Paterson indicated that more RGGI greenhouse gas allowances may be distributed by DEC for the benefit of power plant owners who need to […]
This week, Multiple Intervenors, a group of industrial and other large electricity-consuming customers, filed a petition at the PSC this week seeking a declaratory ruling to reduce the PSC-created $334 […]
PULP’s Electricity Bill Calculator now enables estimation of residential electric bills of Orange & Rockland Utilities, in addition to Con Edison bills. The New York PSC allows these utilities to […]