Con Edison and its customers can mark Climate Week with pride, having set new records in the first six months of 2025 in the transition to clean energy.
Highlights include:
- Community Solar Surge: Customers participating in community solar earned $43.7 million in renewable energy credits - $9 million more than in the same period last year.
- Savings for Households: About 55,000 solar customers reduced their electric bills to zero at least once.
- Clean Energy Investments: The New York State Public Service Commission authorized Con Edison to invest $2.1 billion to support customer efforts for energy efficiency and building electrification from 2026 to 2030.
- Smart Infrastructure: Using a cost-effective "dig once" approach, Con Edison is building infrastructure to electrify 2,000 school buses and 3,000 medium- and heavy-duty vehicles.
"More New Yorkers are choosing to adopt solar power and a cleaner, more affordable energy future," said Greg Elcock, vice president, Customer Clean Energy Programs, Con Edison. "This demonstrates what's possible when we work with customers, communities, city, state and local governments to increase energy efficiency and reduce costs."
Other highlights from January to June include:
Affordability Programs
- About 440,000 income-eligible customers in the Energy Affordability Program received more than $125 million in bill discounts.
- The company is working to implement the expanded Enhanced Energy Affordability Program approved by the Public Service Commission in July.
- The company provided $10.4 million in energy efficiency and building electrification incentives to income-eligible customers.
Clean Transportation & EV Infrastructure
- Incentives from Con Edison's Micromobility program supported Brooklyn's first battery swap hub, helping riders to charge e-bike batteries more safely.
- The company's PowerReady program provided $31 million to support the installation of more than 3,200 Level 2 EV charging plugs and 65 Direct Current Fast Charging (DCFC) plugs.
- Forty-five percent of the Level 2 plugs are in New York State-designated Disadvantaged Communities and 44 percent are publicly available.
- About a third of the DCFC plugs are in Disadvantaged Communities and about a third are available to the public.
Every EV that replaces a gasoline- or diesel-powered vehicle means cleaner air for local communities and fewer greenhouse gas emissions.
Reliable Clean City Projects
Con Edison completed a transmission line between Gowanus and Greenwood to increase capacity and reliability for Brooklyn customers on time and on budget.
Heat Pump Incentives Help Make Emissions-Free Buildings More Affordable
Con Edison customers continue to replace their fossil-fuel powered HVAC systems with heat pumps, reducing emissions.
From January to June, customers installed more than 3,100 heat pumps to heat and cool space and another 119 for hot water. They used $34.4 million from the Clean Heat Program.
Heat pump incentives offset upfront costs for customers who want to reduce their impact on the environment by using electricity to heat and cool space and to heat water.
Heat pumps are up to three times more efficient than traditional heating and cooling systems. When left at a single temperature setting, they use electricity consistently throughout the day.
Because of their steady electric usage throughout the day, when customers pair their heat pumps with the Select Pricing Plan, they may save money on their electric bills, compared to the standard electric rate.
The first 500 air-source heat pump customers and the first 500 ground-source heat pump customers who enroll in the Select Pricing Plan also benefit from a price guarantee for the first 12 months.
The company's building electrification programs continue to expand incentives for waste heat recovery to include domestic hot water in new construction.
Con Edison helped pilot an innovative installation that recovers heat from wastewater in an affordable mixed-use development in Brooklyn. With geothermal, the wastewater heat pump captures thermal energy from water used in sinks, showers and washers and uses that energy to warm and cool the building.
Westchester Customers Soak Up the Sun
Westchester customers lead the region in solar energy generating capacity with more than 14,400 arrays that can produce more than 200 megawatts of electricity.
Queens customers follow closely with more than 195 megawatts of solar capacity. Queens has nearly twice as many arrays as Westchester with more than 27,800.
All together Con Edison customers have the capacity to generate 728 megawatts with 80,694 installations.
Energy Storage
Westchester County customers have installed 723 battery systems with the capacity to store 29 megawatts. Staten Island customers lead battery storage capacity with more than 32 megawatts.
Customers with batteries can charge their units when energy is less expensive and use that energy when demand is high and power is more expensive.
For more information about programs to help customers use energy efficiently please visit Con Edison's website.
Con Edison's "Clean Energy Update" serves as a snapshot of customer and company progress on clean energy technologies and initiatives, including solar power, battery storage, electric vehicles, and building electrification. It provides an overview of the adoption of these technologies and the company's related programs, incentives, and infrastructure upgrades designed to support New York's clean energy goals.
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