NYPA seeks rate hikes for hydropower customers in Massena, Lake Placid, Tupper Lake and Boonville - Adirondack Explorer

NYPA seeks rate hikes for hydropower customers in Massena, Lake Placid, Tupper Lake and Boonville - Adirondack Explorer

By Amy Feiereisel, NCPR reporter About 370,000 New Yorkers get their electricity through NYPA’s ‘preference power rates.’ That includes North Country residents in Massena, Lake Placid, Tupper Lake, Rouses Point, Boonville, and Theresa.  The rates are tied to hydropower from dams on the Niagara and St. Lawrence rivers, the latter of which is in Massena. NYPA has put forth a new proposal to raise rates from roughly $13 dollars per Megawatt hour, t…