Will HVPA lower the supply charges?

Unlike Central Hudson, HVPA can lower the supply charges on your bill in two ways. First, it will have the authority to generate its own energy for sale if it wants to. Private delivery businesses like Central Hudson are not allowed to generate energy for sale in the competitive wholesale market because of their special status as legal monopolies. Publicly-owned utilities are allowed to do so because they are a public service and not a business. HVPA can decide to generate its own energy at lower costs than what is available in the wholesale market.

Second, publicly-owned utilities are allowed to be preferential customers of publicly-owned energy developers that sell low-cost enegy, such as the New York Power Authority. Unlike Central Hudson, HVPA would have such preferential access to NYPA’s energy supply.