The price New York State Electric & Gas Corp. customers pay to have electricity delivered to their homes could rise by 23.7% under a rate plan filed with New York regulators Monday afternoon.
The dent in your wallet: $10.17 a month, according to utility estimates, bringing the average bill to more than $53 monthly.
Rochester Gas and Electric Corp. customers will be hit with a smaller increase in electric delivery rates — 5.4%, $2.86 a month, raising the average bill to about $53 each month.
In the last rate case approved in 2015, NYSEG electric delivery rates increased by 12.8% over the three year term; natural gas 23.5%; RG&E electric rates 11.7%; and natural gas 15.6%, according to securities filings.