NEW YORK STATE (WSYR-TV) -- National Grid has already gotten the green light to raise rates, and New York State Electric and Gas are proposing to raise utility bills.

NYSEG wants to increase delivery rates for gas and electricity. However, the Public Service Commission must approve any rate hike, and regulators are receiving an outpouring of complaints from customers who are pleading with the commission to reject the proposal altogether.

"They were flushed with cash, but they chose to send $450 million of it over to their parent company in dividends and then turn around and arrogantly ask this commission, and their rate payers, to turn around and replenish their coffers for the money they just gave to their shareholders," Jeanne Thomas, a Candor resident, said.

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