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reports/ny_hp_rates/index.qmd

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 title: "Heat Pump Rates in New York State"
 subtitle: "An analysis of cost-based and cost-reflective rates for heat pump customers"
-date: "2026-01-09"
+date: "2026-04-28"
 author:
   - name: Sherry Zuo
     affiliations:
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     return f"{abs(x) * 100:,.{accuracy}f}"
 ```
 
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+::: {.callout-important}
+## Embargoed until 9:00AM April 28, 2026
+
+This report is provided in advance under embargo. Please do not publish, broadcast, post, or otherwise share findings from this report before **Tuesday, April 28, 2026 at 9:00 AM Eastern Time**.
+:::
+
 # Introduction
 
 New York faces two intertwined energy challenges: rising electricity bills that strain household budgets across the state and the imperative to reduce reliance on fossil fuels, which are driving both climate change and a global energy crisis. The Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act (CLCPA) mandates an 85% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2050[^clcpa] and the state's Scoping Plan identifies building electrification — replacing gas furnaces and boilers with electric heat pumps — as one of the greatest opportunities to achieve those reductions.[^scoping-plan] Just as the challenges of energy affordability and fossil fuel reduction are connected, so are the solutions. As this report shows, modernizing {{< glossary "Rate design" display="rate design" >}} can advance affordability and reduce fossil fuel use and emissions.[^neep-modern-rate]
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 But as heat pump adoption starts to exhaust transmission and distribution headroom across the state, heat pump customers will increasingly be the ones driving grid investment — and keeping rates fair will mean reflecting that cost. At the distribution level, these adjustments wouldn't need to begin until the early 2040s, according to NYISO's baseline forecast.
 
-# Acknowledgments
+# About this report
+
+## Who commissioned this report?
+
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+::: {.column width="60%"}
+This report was commissioned by [Earthjustice](https://earthjustice.org/) and [Alliance for a Green Economy](https://www.allianceforagreeneconomy.org/) with support from the [Environmental Defense Fund](https://www.edf.org/).
+
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+![](img/earthjustice_logo.png){width="85%" fig-align="left"}
+![](img/agree_logo.png){width="85%" fig-align="left"}
+![](img/edf_logo.png){width="85%" fig-align="left"}
+:::
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+
+## Who is Switchbox?
+
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+::: {.column width="60%"}
+Switchbox is a nonprofit think tank that produces rigorous, accessible data on state climate policy for advocates, policymakers, and the public.
+
+Find out more at [www.switch.box](https://www.switch.box).
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+::: {.column width="40%"}
+![](img/sb_logo.png){width="85%" fig-align="left"}
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+
+## Acknowledgments
 
 The authors would like to thank the following individuals:
 
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 - Amy Panek, Park Foundation
 - Laura Wisland, Heising-Simons Foundation
 
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 # Appendix 1: A primer on utility costs, bills, and rates {#sec-background}
 
 The Background section (@sec-background) near the start of this report introduced utility costs, bills, cost of service, and rates, and previewed why volumetric delivery pricing strains heat pump economics. What follows is a step-by-step deep dive through the same topics — costs and cost of service, then bills and rates — to fully clarify these concepts, and their relationship to both the fairness problem (@sec-fairness-problem) and the efficiency problem (@sec-efficiency-problem).