For some users, cheap electricity in high-priced New York
This will shock every New Yorker fed up with high electricity prices: there’s a class of electric customers in the Empire State that has sharply lowered its costs to below national averages, thanks to effective lobbying and sympathetic state policy.
Industrial power users, mostly upstate, pay per-kilowatt hour prices that are one-third what the state’s residential customers pay, a Capital New York analysis of U.S. Energy Information Administration data shows.