{"id":593,"date":"2006-01-09T09:32:35","date_gmt":"2006-01-09T17:32:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/01\/pay_your_rates.html"},"modified":"2006-01-09T09:32:35","modified_gmt":"2006-01-09T17:32:35","slug":"pay_your_rates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/01\/pay_your_rates.html","title":{"rendered":"Pay Your Rates!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Post reports that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/news\/regionalnews\/60057.htm\">Con Ed is raising electricity rates by 36 percent<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Con Edison is hiking the price of electricity for residential customers 36 percent this month \u00e2\u20ac\u201d a $13 increase for a typical city two-bedroom home using 300 kilowatt-hours of electricity a month.<\/p>\n<p>Steeper increases are in the offing for larger suburban-style homes. They use between 500 and 1,000 kilowatt-hours each month, and their owners could face increases of as much as $43 monthly. Blame Mother Nature and the markets, the utility says.<\/p>\n<p>Hurricane Katrina made the natural-gas market unstable, and the cold weather is pushing electricity demand up, adding pressure for rate increases. Con Ed sets rates every three months but makes adjustments each month.<\/p>\n<p>. . .<\/p>\n<p>The high gas market prompted Con Ed to hike the price of energy for residential properties to almost 20 cents per kilowatt-hour in January, up from about 15 cents in both November and December, and 11 cents last April.<\/p>\n<p>Olert said rates &#8220;probably will&#8221; continue to rise in 2006. &#8220;Most of the electricity that we buy is produced by natural gas. So it&#8217;s all linked to that.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Post reports that Con Ed is raising electricity rates by 36 percent: Con Edison is hiking the price of electricity for residential customers 36 percent this month \u00e2\u20ac\u201d a $13 increase for a typical city two-bedroom home using 300 kilowatt-hours of electricity a month. Steeper increases are in the offing for larger suburban-style homes. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-consumer_issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}