Central Hudson Gas and Electric

About Central Hudson Gas and Electric

Central Hudson Gas and Electric is an investor owned company. The largest county served by Central Hudson Gas and Electric is Orange County, but the company also provides electricity in 8 counties in New York. Presently, 270,075 customers are provided electricity by the company. These customers are a mix of 231,438 residential accounts, 38,040 commercial customer accounts and 597 industrial customers. The average residential electricity price for Central Hudson Gas and Electric is about 25.51 cents per kilowatt hour, which is 14.95% higher than the average state rate of 22.19 cents and 57.92% higher than the nationwide average of 16.15. They had sales of 2,887,054 megawatt hours in 2023 sold to end users. During the same timeframe, Central Hudson Gas and Electric produced 68,108 megawatt hours and obtained 3,064,605 megawatt hours through the wholesale electricity market. In 2023, the provider earned 82.97% of their revenue from retail electricity sales and 0.14% from sales to wholesale customers.

Customers of the provider pay an average monthly residential electricity bill of $170.12. This is 19.96% higher than the New York average of $141.69. Electricity production from renewable fuel sources by the supplier totals 68,205 megawatt hours. This ranks the provider 203rd in the nation out of the 3530 providers we track. By total customers, Central Hudson Gas and Electric is the 135th largest supplier out of 3530 electricity companies in the country. The company's production plants have output of 521 megawatt hours by burning natural gas as the fuel source.