About LIPA
Welcome to the official blog of the Long Island Power Authority (LIPA). LIPA is a not-for-profit public authority of the State of New York, serving 1.2 million customers on Long Island and the Rockaways with clean, reliable, and affordable power. LIPA owns the electrical transmission and distribution (T&D) system serving our community. Since 2014, LIPA has outsourced most of the management services, power delivery, and customer service to PSEG Long Island (a subsidiary of the Public Service Enterprise Group Incorporated, a publicly traded energy company based in New Jersey), which operates on behalf of LIPA as the customer-facing brand of the utility. The current service contract with PSEG Long Island expires on December 31, 2025 and a request for proposal for the new service contract is pending approval in 2025.
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Our new blog is structured by the three pillars of LIPA’s purpose: clean, reliable, and affordable. In each, we will highlight the many projects and initiatives we are undertaking to achieve the goals set by our Board of Trustees in the areas of transmission & distribution, affordability and rate design, clean energy, customer experience, information technology and cybersecurity, and fiscal sustainability. (see the LIPA Board’s strategic direction).
Clean
New York’s ambitious clean energy targets are outlined in its New York State Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act (Climate Act) enacted in 2019. The Climate Act establishes a comprehensive set of time-bound goals, including targets for reducing greenhouse gas emissions from electricity generation, increasing the adoption of zero-emission vehicles, reducing fossil fuel use in building heating systems, and setting resource-specific mandates for distributed solar, renewable energy, energy storage, and offshore wind.
LIPA’s portion of the state-wide Climate Act goals for 2025 and our progress to date are detailed below.
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Long Island clean energy projects either in development or slated for completion by the early 2030s are listed below.
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In this section, you will learn more about LIPA’s progress in clean energy, energy efficiency, reduction in carbon emissions across the heating and transportation sectors, and climate justice for disadvantaged communities in our service territory.
Reliable
Above all, customers prioritize and deserve reliable and resilient electric service, and the LIPA Board has established ambitious goals to meet these needs.
Since 2010, LIPA has committed a record $9.4 billion – more than triple the investment rate from a decade ago. This unprecedented investment is driving improvements in reliability (such as a 38% reduction in customers experiencing power outages), boosting resilience, and integrating cutting-edge system designs and technologies to deliver exceptional value to our customers.
In this section you will learn more about LIPA’s capital investments and federal funding enhancing the reliability and resilience of our electric grid and how we are addressing the effects of climate change on Long Island and the Rockaways.
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Affordable
LIPA’s Board Policy on Customer Value, Affordability, and Rate Design aims to maintain competitive electric rates as compared to other regional utilities while transitioning to a zero-carbon electric grid, achieving industry-leading reliability, resiliency, and customer experience, while supporting our low-to-moderate income customers.
Despite inheriting a multi-billion dollar debt from the Long Island Lighting Company’s Shoreham Nuclear Plant, LIPA’s fiscal sustainability initiatives including the formation of the Utility Debt Securitization Authority, settlements on historically over assessed property taxes, and access to low cost capital, amongst other mechanisms has helped alleviate the debt burden on our customers. In fact, since 1998, LIPA’s electric rates have increased only 44%, compared to a range of 70% to 162% for neighboring utilities, and lower than the rate of inflation (89%).
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LIPA’s role as the financial stewards of the utility, has saved customers over $1.2 billion in operating lean since 2014, balancing the cost and service to get the most of every dollar spent.
In this section you will learn more about what and how LIPA prioritizes affordability for our customers, while advancing New York State’s Climate Act goals and protecting our Island from the effects of climate change.
