PSC-Ordered Evaluation Still ‘In Process’ as New Filing Offers First Full Look at Westchester Power’s Final Year
WHITE PLAINS, NY (April 4, 2026) — The Sustainable Westchester Community Choice Aggregation (CCA) annual report for 2025—due March 31, 2026—was filed on April 3, 2026, after the deadline had passed.
The filing provides the first comprehensive public dataset covering the program’s final year of operation, as Westchester Power ceased service at the end of November 2025.
The report offers a detailed view of customer participation and electricity load across participating municipalities during the program’s final phase.
It also comes as a state-ordered evaluation of the CCA program remains ongoing. In November 2024, the New York State Public Service Commission (PSC) issued an order directing a formal review of the program, including the retention of a consultant to assess performance and inform potential future regulatory action. In March 2026, the PSC confirmed that the evaluation is still in progress and has not yet been released.
The evaluation is being conducted by a consultant retained through a state procurement process; related records have been requested but are not yet publicly available.
The timing of the PSC’s evaluation raises broader questions about its role going forward. Although the Commission ordered a formal review of the CCA program in November 2024, the program effectively ceased operating statewide by the end of 2025, before the evaluation was completed. As a result, the review may serve primarily as a retrospective analysis of the program’s final phase and as a basis for any future policy considerations.
The Westchester Power filing arrives amid sustained criticism of the CCA model, including concerns raised by regulators and ratepayers regarding automatic enrollment practices and reported pricing outcomes compared to default utility service from providers such as Con Edison and NYSEG. The PSC has separately identified recurring billing and enrollment issues, limited demonstrated customer savings, and broader questions regarding the program’s net benefits.
Using the newly filed 2025 report, along with prior annual filings, Talk of the Sound analyzed the final three years of Westchester Power (2023–2025) to examine trends in customer participation and electricity load as the program wound down.
That analysis found that customer participation remained relatively stable through 2024 before declining sharply entering 2025. Enrollment fell from 143,107 customers in Q4 2024 to 122,934 in Q1 2025—a drop of more than 20,000 accounts in a single quarter—and declined to 117,726 customers by the end of 2025.
Electricity load followed a different pattern. Quarterly load varied due to seasonal demand but remained within historical ranges even as participation declined. Load peaked at approximately 333.5 million kWh in Q3 2023 and fell to about 170.8 million kWh in Q2 2025, but did not decline in proportion to customer losses.
The divergence between declining participation and comparatively stable load indicates that the program continued to serve a substantial share of electricity demand even as enrollment contracted.
Municipal participation also declined ahead of program termination, with several communities opting not to renew participation prior to the final contract cycle. The number of participating municipalities fell to 26 by 2025.
Taken together, the data suggest that Westchester Power’s decline was driven primarily by falling participation and municipal withdrawals, rather than any corresponding collapse in underlying electricity demand.
This article was prepared with the assistance of AI tools under the direction and editing of Robert Cox.
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A full analysis of the data, including quarterly breakdowns and methodology, is available here:
👉 Westchester Power CCA Program — Participation and Load Analysis (2023–2025)