Upgrades to getting old utility gear and efforts to cut back greenhouse fuel emissions have mixed to drive up electrical energy prices throughout the nation, with the nationwide common growing from one yr to the subsequent.
As a New York Instances enterprise reporter, I’ve been wanting into the influence of the rising prices of electrical energy on shopper payments. With my colleague Madeleine Ngo, I just lately examined how greater charges have strained the budgets of low-income customers — a lot of whom can not afford clear vitality applied sciences like photo voltaic panels and electrical autos.
We’re planning extra tales concerning the rising price of vitality and the way it’s affecting folks across the nation. How costly has it change into to maintain the lights on? What influence are electrical energy charges having on family budgets? What steps are folks taking to decrease their payments?
And we’d like your assist. Electrical payments present precisely what customers pay for electrical energy. When you’ve got an electrical invoice that shocked you, we’d like to evaluate it. I’ll learn each response to this questionnaire, and will contact you to study extra about your story and presumably embrace it in an upcoming article. I gained’t publish any a part of your response with out chatting with you first. I gained’t share your contact data exterior the Instances newsroom and gained’t use it for any function aside from to achieve again out to you.
