On June 30, 2025, New York State Electric & Gas (NYSEG) and Rochester Gas and Electric (RG&E) filed amendments to their electric and gas tariff schedules with the New York State Public Service Commission, proposing delivery-revenue increases for the 12-month period ending April 30, 2027. The Public Service Commission’s notice in the case states that NYSEG proposes to increase its electric delivery revenues by approximately $464.4 million—an 18.4 percent increase in total revenues, or 35.0 percent in base delivery revenues—and its natural gas delivery revenues by approximately $93 million, a 22.1 percent increase in total revenues or 39.4 percent in base delivery revenues. RG&E’s requests are separate and similarly large.
Those are company requests, not approved rates, and the notice is explicit that “the actual bill impacts of these proposed changes on any particular customer class will vary based upon revenue allocation and rate design.” That sentence is the most important one in the filing for anyone in Binghamton trying to figure out what their building will pay. The next step is not to guess from the headline percentage—it is to open the case file, find your customer class, and read the exhibit that applies to you.
Why a rate case is the right document to read
Binghamton’s energy story is usually told through weather and water: the Susquehanna and Chenango, the tributaries that feed them, the combined sewer overflows after heavy rain, the floodwall that holds the line downtown. All of that matters. But the price of running a furnace, a water heater, a sump pump, or a commercial kitchen in the urban core is set in a different room—an administrative proceeding in Albany where a utility asks for revenue and the Commission decides what it gets.
That proceeding is one of the few energy decisions residents can actually read before it takes effect. The filings are public, and the Commission must consider the proposal and may adopt, reject, or modify it. Treating the filing as a public document rather than a press release is the most useful civic move available.
What the companies say is driving the request
The notice attributes specific drivers to the companies. For electric delivery revenues, NYSEG cites increased storm and vegetation management expense, capital investments to address aging infrastructure and increase capacity, information technology upgrades, and incremental operations and maintenance expense. For gas delivery revenues, the companies cite prevailing wage requirements, federal and state pipeline safety mandates requiring system investments and upgrades, and costs to meet clean energy goals.
These are the companies’ stated reasons. The notice reports them; it does not verify them, and the Commission has not yet ruled on whether they justify the request. Keeping that distinction clear is the discipline the record rewards. A storm-hardening argument and a pipeline-safety argument are different claims with different evidence behind them, and a reader who separates them can ask sharper questions than one who responds to the total.
What the record does not yet show
There is no approved rate in these cases yet. There is no Binghamton-specific bill-impact figure in the notice. There is no public accounting, in the retrieved record, of what the City of Binghamton itself pays to heat and power its own buildings—that question is real and worth asking, but the answer is not in these filings. Anyone who tells you the city’s energy bill or a household’s new monthly cost based on the headline percentages is extrapolating, not reporting.
The honest position is that the request is large, the drivers are stated but unproven, and the actual effect on a given building depends on which rate class it falls into and how the Commission allocates the revenue. That is not a satisfying answer, but it is the accurate one, and it points directly at what to do next.
How to find your own number in the filings
The Commission’s notice gives the procedure. Go to dps.ny.gov, click “File Search” under the heading “Commission Files,” and enter the case number in the “Search by Case Number” box. For NYSEG electric, use Case 25-E-0375; for NYSEG gas, Case 25-G-0378. RG&E’s cases are 25-E-0379 (electric) and 25-G-0380 (gas). The pre-filed testimony and exhibits are available there.
Here is a hypothetical walk-through, offered as an illustration rather than a report of anyone’s actual experience. Suppose you own or manage a small mixed-use building on the North Side with a gas furnace and electric baseboard backup. You would open Case 25-G-0378 and Case 25-E-0375, locate the exhibits that address rate design and revenue allocation by customer class, and find the class that matches your usage—likely a small commercial or residential class depending on the building’s configuration. You would then look for the bill-impact exhibit, which shows how the proposed revenue requirement translates into rates for that class. If the exhibit is not clear, that is itself a legitimate question to put in a written comment: ask the Commission to require a plain-language bill-impact table for your class.
That is the practical value of the filing. It lets a landlord, a renter, or a city official ask a specific question instead of reacting to a total.
The office-closure question, and what it does not say
As part of the filings, the companies propose to close several walk-in offices: NYSEG’s Auburn, Ithaca, and Oneonta locations, and RG&E’s Sodus and Rochester offices. Binghamton is not on that list. That is a factual observation from the notice, not a prediction that the Binghamton office will stay open under a final order—the Commission has not ruled. For a resident who relies on in-person help with a bill or an energy-affordability application, the closure proposal is worth a comment in its own right, separate from the rate question.
What this means for watershed resilience and energy burden
The connection between the rate case and the neighborhood-scale concerns this publication follows is not abstract. A building that floods repeatedly faces repair costs and, often, higher insurance; a building with an aging furnace and poor insulation faces a higher energy burden; and a rate increase that lands unevenly across customer classes can deepen that burden in the same blocks that already carry flood risk. The combined sewer system, the levee, and the grid are separate systems, but the household budget that absorbs all of them is one budget.
That is why reading the rate case is a resilience act, not just a consumer one. The Commission’s decision will shape what it costs to keep a building dry, warm, and habitable in Binghamton’s urban core for years. The record does not yet show the final number. It does show the request, the stated drivers, and the procedure for commenting—and that is enough to act on.
Frequently asked questions
Is the rate increase already approved?
No. The June 30, 2025 filings are requests. The Commission must consider the proposal and may adopt, reject, or modify it. No final order appears in the retrieved record.
How much will my bill go up?
The notice does not give a Binghamton-specific or class-specific figure. It states that bill impacts vary by revenue allocation and rate design. The way to get a defensible answer is to find your customer class in the filed exhibits using the case numbers above.
Does the Binghamton NYSEG office close under this proposal?
Binghamton is not among the walk-in offices listed for closure in the notice. The listed closures are Auburn, Ithaca, and Oneonta for NYSEG, and Sodus and Rochester for RG&E. The Commission has not ruled on the proposal.
Where can I read the actual filings?
At dps.ny.gov, using File Search and the case numbers 25-E-0375, 25-G-0378, 25-E-0379, and 25-G-0380.
Sources: New York State Public Service Commission, Notice Soliciting Comments and Announcing In-Person and Virtual Public Statement Hearings on Rate Request and Proposed Customer Service Center Closures, Cases 25-E-0375, 25-G-0378, 25-E-0379, 25-G-0380 (issued September 9, 2025); PSC event notice for the Binghamton public statement hearings, October 7, 2025.
