PSC March 21, 2008 Letter on Energy East/Iberdrola by Bonnie Palmiter

March 21, 2008

To: Hon. Jaclyn A. Brilling
Secretary to the Commission
New York State Public Service Commission
Agency Building 3
Albany, NY 12223-1350

From: Bonnie Palmiter
10139 Wagner Gully Road
Cohocton, NY 14826

Ref: Case 07-M-0906-Iberdrola Merger.

Secretary Brilling:

Iberdrola owning both energy producing and distributing facilities in this state creates a monopoly situation that will be bad for New York’s residents and its economy.There is no regulation or protection for us and it is up to you, the PSC to protect us whom have chosen to stay and live in New York. You can not allow a wind developer to own the distribution rights and pricing of our utilities. Wouldn’t you then be allowing a monopoly of electric utilities, therefore adding the burden onto us the consumer.

Wind certainly isn’t sustainable and is proven more expensive and defiantly not reliable without any perks to the consumer. Only the developers and corporations will be making out while the consumer is being burdened with the cost and foreign corporations are making money at the expense of New York residents.

If the PSC allows Iberdrola to own New York electric, wouldn’t you be selling New Yorkers out, not looking at the best interest of the people living here. Why would you put New York in a tight spot of allowing a foreign company to own our utilities? Is it not your job to be looking after the people of NY and our best interest. Allowing a foreign company to come in and buy our electric facilities out from under our own control will be very dangerous to us. Where is the guarantee that our service and repairs will be of high standards that we have now with our current companies in the U.S.?


The cost to New Yorker’s will be added onto the customers electric bills. We already pay high enough utility bills and to have to pay for foreign developers and corporations to own NY is appalling.

Wind developers have already come into New York and disrupted many country folks way of life in many ways. You have allowed them to infringe on the value of our homes, taken our scenic views where we chose to live in the country away. You have allowed non sustainable, unreliable source of power and significant increases for energy at the expense of New Yorker’s.

I truly hope the Public Service Commission is truly looking out for the taxpayers of New York, already much has been taken away from us, who have chosen to live in rural areas.