Investor-owned utility
Orange & Rockland Utilities
Rockland County, most of Orange County, and part of Sullivan County. A Con Edison subsidiary, but with its own tariff and its own rates.
At a glance
The numbers that decide your project
Default residential rate
SC-1
Default residential class for O&R.
All-in cost of energy
$0.24–$0.32 / kWh
Delivery plus supply plus surcharges.
Filed Orange & Rockland residential rates · verified Apr 2026
Basic service charge
$24 / month
Solar does not remove this.
Filed Orange & Rockland residential rates · verified Apr 2026
Customer Benefit Contribution
$1.29 / kW-DC / month
About $139 a year on a 9 kW system, for the life of the array.
Filed Customer Benefit Contribution (CBC) rates · verified Jan 2026The highest Customer Benefit Contribution in New York State. On a 10 kW-DC system it is roughly $155 a year.
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 | $0.24–$0.32 | $24/mo | No arbitrage value |
Interconnection
What actually slows a project down here
- Process is similar to Con Edison's but on a smaller and generally faster scale.
- The highest CBC in the state means the per-kW penalty on oversizing is real here. Right-sizing matters more in O&R territory than anywhere else.
Reliability
How the power fails in this territory
Wooded suburban terrain with a meaningful storm-outage history. Backup power sells well here for reasons that are actually justified.
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
3 places we cover on O&R
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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.