This is interesting

Residents of the New York City area already pay some of the highest residential electricity rates in the country, ranging from 64 percent above average on Long Island to a whopping 130 percent above the national norm for Con Ed customers in the city and Westchester.
http://nypost.com/2016/09/27/your-co...-to-gov-cuomo/

That’s because, essentially at Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s order, the state Public Service Commission will require electric utilities to both subsidize money-losing upstate nuclear plants and buy power from “renewable” energy sources, mainly solar and wind-generated.