Sally Librera

Because it's important.

We have been very careful about balancing the bill impacts which customers bear with the investments that we make in our infrastructure.

And even today, where we look at assets that are 70, 80, 100 years old, we're very strategic and pinpointed about which of those assets, which of those parts of infrastructure we replace because we want to keep customer bills low.

So we look for those opportunities where we can do multiple things with an investment.

where we can replace an aging asset with something that's more modern and something that can carry more energy, something that can unlock more energy that our generators have to connect into the grid, and something that's going to be more resilient to storms and better leverage technology so it's cheaper to maintain.

In some cases we do that, but it's also the type of infrastructure that we put up.

We are replacing in places sometimes wooden poles with steel poles, just much stronger infrastructure.

It is a difficult balance and it's one that we navigate every single day.

We do it through a number of avenues.

We certainly work closely with our customers to help them manage costs and we do that through a variety of bill assistance programs and

energy efficiency programs and rebates.

And we have consumer advocates whose job it is to specifically work with folks in communities to help them manage their costs.

We also, as I mentioned before, are very careful about where and how we invest in assets.

And we make sure that if we're investing in an asset, that we're going to get more power from investing in that asset, that we're going to get more resiliency, and that we're going to get more efficiency from investing in that asset.

Well, we certainly support the all of the above energy approach and are pleased with the most recent version of the state energy report that's just come out today that leans into an all of the above approach.

Given the rate at which demand for energy is increasing, we need to be utilizing all of those opportunities, from renewables to natural gas to nuclear, to make sure that folks have the energy they need.

We are working on the infrastructure to move power from point A to point B. So while we support projects like, say, the Nessie Pipeline, that's a supply project.

It's not our project, but we support it because we know how critical it is to the downstate

community and how reliant New York City and Long Island are on natural gas and how thin that reserve margin is and their energy is demand for energy is growing as well.

So we support Nessie for those reasons.