{"id":604210,"date":"2026-02-20T20:29:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T20:29:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/604210\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T20:29:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T20:29:11","slug":"new-york-assemblyman-proposes-cap-on-electric-rate-increases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/604210\/","title":{"rendered":"New York assemblyman proposes cap on electric rate increases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">PLATTSBURGH, N.Y. (WCAX) &#8211; High electric bills have some utility customers in Northern New York crying foul.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Friday, Democratic New York Assemblyman Michael Cashman fielded questions from concerned ratepayers at Senior Planet in Plattsburgh.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Cashman has a bill in the works to cap rate increase costs at 2.5%. It would also impose civil penalties on utility companies that don\u2019t comply with the potential statute.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">One senior said her bills keep increasing and she isn\u2019t told why.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cMy concern is being on a fixed income, will this be a continuing situation? Will I be confronted with higher bills as the year goes on?\u201d said Carol Solari-Ruscoe of Peru, N.Y.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Cashman is calling on Gov. Kathy Hochul to intervene through an executive directive while his bill works its way through the Legislature.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 WCAX. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PLATTSBURGH, N.Y. (WCAX) &#8211; High electric bills have some utility customers in Northern New York crying foul. Friday,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":604211,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,17281,4503,25133,9958,59867,183169,2934,635,405,403,50,5226,5225,17354,103883,5228,5227,80,445,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,86973,47139,636],"class_list":["post-604210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-america","tag-bill","tag-bills","tag-cap","tag-country","tag-electric","tag-increases","tag-legislation","tag-new","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-news","tag-newyork","tag-newyorkcity","tag-north","tag-northern","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-politics","tag-rates","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa","tag-utility","tag-wcax","tag-york"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=604210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604210\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/604211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=604210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=604210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=604210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}