Investor-owned utility
Central Hudson Gas & Electric
The mid-Hudson Valley: Dutchess, Ulster, Columbia, Greene, and parts of Orange, Putnam, Sullivan, and Albany counties.
At a glance
The numbers that decide your project
Default residential rate
SC-1
Default residential class for Central Hudson.
All-in cost of energy
$0.22–$0.30 / kWh
Delivery plus supply plus surcharges.
Filed Central Hudson residential rates · verified Apr 2026
Basic service charge
$25 / month
Solar does not remove this.
Filed Central Hudson residential rates · verified Apr 2026
Customer Benefit Contribution
$0.86 / kW-DC / month
About $93 a year on a 9 kW system, for the life of the array.
Filed Customer Benefit Contribution (CBC) rates · verified Jan 2026
VDER / NYISO zones
G (Hudson Valley)
Where the Value Stack applies instead of net metering.
Rates
Residential rate options
| Rate | Type | All-in | Fixed | What it does to storage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SC-1 | Flat | $0.22–$0.30 | $25/mo | No arbitrage value |
Interconnection
What actually slows a project down here
- Heavily wooded, hilly terrain means shading studies matter more here than almost anywhere else in the state. A production estimate built from a satellite roof outline without a shade model is not worth much in Ulster or Greene County.
- Hosting capacity in the rural western parts of the territory is genuinely constrained in places.
Reliability
How the power fails in this territory
Tree-driven outages are frequent and sometimes long. Storm restoration in the more remote parts of the territory runs into multiple days.
This is the honest input to a backup-power decision. Buy against the failure mode you actually face, not against the one in the brochure.
Coverage
5 places we cover on Central Hudson
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How this page is built
This is a generated page: the structure is shared across locations, the numbers are not. Every figure comes from the source cited beside it, with the date we last checked it. Nothing here is a quote, an appraisal, or tax advice, and none of it is specific to your roof.
Rates and incentive programs change. We re-verify utility tariffs and NYSERDA program status on a rolling schedule and stamp the date on each number rather than on the page, so you can see which specific figures are fresh. Full methodology · Program status tracker · About the Local Energy Playbook
Page content last reviewed April 2026.