An energy company seeking to hike utility bills in New York City by 11% disconnected more than 88,000 households during the first six months of 2025, signaling a crackdown on families struggling to cover rising energy costs even as the climate crisis drives extreme temperatures.
Con Edison, the monopoly utility that provides electricity to 3.6m homes across the country’s largest city and neighboring Westchester county, disconnected almost 2.5% of all its customers between January and June this year – triple the total number of families left without power in 2024. One in five disconnected homes remain without power for at least a week.
The utility shut off 16,327 households in the month leading up to 25 June. New York was hit by its first heatwave between 23 and 25 June, breaking daytime and night-time records in Central Park and driving a surge in emergency room visits.
Right on track to have no customers left at that rate. Same thing happening in so many other sectors too. Child rapist rump on track running the us into the ground due to being more stupid than a rutabaga.
In the richest country in the world:
Almost 16% of New York homes – one in six Con Edison residential customers – were behind on their energy bills at the end of 2024, with debts totaling $948m, according to data submitted by the utility to the state regulator.
Nationwide, an estimated one in three households experience energy poverty – the inability to access sufficient amounts of electricity and other energy sources due to financial hardship. Low-income households, people of color and states with the fewest social safety nets are disproportionately affected, and millions of families are regularly forced to ration food, medicines, energy and other essentials
The utillity Con Ed made $1.82B net profit on $15.26B of revenue. A margin of about 12%. It’s a private, publicly traded, investor owned monopoly, like many other utilities in North America.
And then some wonder why people like Zohran and cheer Luigi.
the richest country in the world
These are rookie numbers. Check out how many children are born into poverty.
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