WPCNR MR. AND MRS. AND MS. WHITE PLAINS POLL. September 19, 2008: In WPCNR reports this week, The CitizeNetReporter has found that neither the New York Independent System Operator nor the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, charged with monitoring electric commerce to protect consumers, just has not been doing the job. Over a dozen organizations, power utilities, and industrial groups are howling for an investigation of the hidden profiteering in electricity routing, and the extent of profits, number of energy traders involved and cost to all consumers is being covered up. The New York Municipal Power Agency, representing 36 small municipalities in New York charges NYISO with being unforthcoming with information and piling on charges. Costs could have been a Billion dollars or more direct to New York users, but we do not know.

But, here's the twist: no media has picked up on this story and dug into it. Even Senator Charles Schumer is accepting the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission refusal to quantify the extent of the costs to New York customers. Even Westchester County government, a consistently carping critic of Con Edison (which WPCNR has found exposed this energy ripoff by lobby NYISO), has not expressed strong interest in how Westchester customers have been bled by NYISO and FERC failure to watch the electric traffic. How can this indifference be?

What do you think, Mr. and Mrs. and Ms. White Plains, should this be investigated? Maybe a billion dollars or more in overcharges is nothing to sweat about, as our press release-happy representatives seem content with. 

 Say what you think at the right. And who should do it? The Wall Street money is now long gone, but these and similar scams may still be happening every time you are using electricity elsewhere in the state and in the country on different electric schemes every day. How do we know it is not? Send the "watchdogs" who have not been watching a message!