Con Edison

A small gas explosion rocked a Manhattan neighborhood and left a gas employee burned in the aftermath. The FDNY said a Con Edison employee was called out to a pizzeria Sunday afternoon at 4th Avenue near East 12th Street. When he got to the boiler room and opened the door to investigate, gas ignited and he suffered a flash burn…

Con Edison confirmed at least one manhole explosion was because of a cable fire, and said that typically what leads to the blasts is failing insulation — but why the insulation my have failed in Times Square remains a mystery

Con Edison crews are now working to find and fix the cause of the manhole explosions in Times Square that sent crowds running on Sunday. NBC New York’s Andrew Siff reports.

Con Edison, the New York utility company, is planning to build an electric transmission facility off the coast of New Jersey to connect multiple offshore wind projects and bring the power ashore. The company on Monday proposed “Clean Link New Jersey,” a transmission network into which numerous turbine-powered wind farms can plug. It would carry the electricity along New...

A new round of pandemic relief from the American Rescue Plan Act will go to help New Yorkers pay for rising utility bills, Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney announced Tuesday. The Democrat said $340,283,934 will be distributed to over 5 million households through the Department of Health and Human Services’ Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program. Those who already receive benefits from SNAP,…

Researchers have been sounding the alarm on climate change since the 1800s, but time and again, these warnings have been ignored. NBCLX Storyteller Chase Cain takes a look at the history of climate change and how we got to this point.

Multiple manhole explosions across New York City left a big mess behind and a number of personnel injured. NBC New York’s Ida Siegal reports.

New technology installed by Con Edison is helping home owners detect natural gas before a potentially deadly explosion. Ray Villeda reports.

Con Edison President Tim Cawley says Isaias’ damage was more than the utility company expected and defended its response to the storm that left many New Yorkers without power for a week.

Gov. Cuomo said the state’s Department of Public Service has sent notice of apparent violation letters to electric companies Con Edison, Orange & Rockland, PSEG LI, Central Hudson along with telephone, cable and internet provider Altice-Optimum

Con Edison will pay a record fine in New York for its failures to manage the aftermath of a storm – not last week’s tropical storm that left hundreds of thousands without power, but winter storms two years ago. The state’s Public Service Commission announced the $10.75 million deal with Con Ed and O&R on Thursday, settling “alleged violations...

Many people in the tri-state area are facing lingering power outages one week after Tropical Storm Isaias. Katherine Creag reports.

Hours after Gov. Andrew Cuomo threatened Con Edison’s franchise in New York, Mayor Bill de Blasio doubled down and suggested the city might be better off with a public utility instead of a private company. Tropical Storm Isaias caused more than 250,000 Con Ed customers to lose power, the company’s second-largest storm outage ever. As of 9 a.m. Tuesday,...

A threat of high heat and humidity is adding to the growing frustrations of thousands of tri-state residents who have spent nearly a week without electricity after several inches of rain and destructive winds from Tropical Storm Isaias brought down countless trees and utility poles. NBC New York’s Ray Villeda reports.

In addition to charging customers more, the proposals by one of the highest-priced utility companies in the nation aren’t sitting well with some environmentalists who want Con Ed to move away from gas. NBC New York’s Chris Glorioso reports.

A steam pipe leak sent plumes of vapor stories high Sunday evening in the Upper West Side, according to the NYPD.

Two multi-story buildings in Manhattan were evacuated Wednesday as Con Edison investigated the source of a possible gas leak, the utility said.

Electrical utility Con Edison says it’s figured out more details about why a relatively small problem escalated into a big blackout in Manhattan

Mayor Bill de Blasio called for an investigation Monday of power outages that came at the end of this weekend’s oppressive heat, saying he no longer trusts utility Con Edison after it decided to turn off power to thousands of customers.

An I-Team review of regulatory filings shows, for the last decade, Consolidated Edison delayed and ultimately scrapped a program to spend $350 million dollars to modernize “relay protection systems.”