New York State Electric and Gas Corporation

NYSEG's EV rate is the residential Day-Night Rate under Service Classification No. 8 with the Special Provision for plug-in electric vehicles (SC-8 PEV). A customer who registers a plug-in EV with NYSEG can put the whole house on the rate through one meter, or put only EV charging on a separate meter that the customer pays to install. Night hours run 11:30 p.m. to 7:00 a.m. Eastern Standard Time (12:30 a.m. to 8:00 a.m. during Daylight Saving Time) every day, including weekends; all other hours bill at the day price. Unlike the standard Day-Night class, the EV provision does not require usage of at least 1,000 kWh per month. Service runs for at least one year, and whole-house customers get a one-year price guarantee: if the EV rate costs more than their previous residential rate would have over that year, NYSEG credits the difference. A separately metered EV-only account does not get the guarantee. Day and night supply prices move with the market each month, so savings depend on how much of the household's usage can shift into the night window.

NYSEG does not offer a residential rebate for buying a Level 2 charger. Its residential EV incentive is OptimizEV, a managed-charging program run through the ev.energy app with a compatible networked Level 2 charger (ChargePoint, Emporia, Tesla, Wallbox, and others on the compatible list) or EV telematics, and it does not combine with the EV rate: customers on SC-8 PEV are not eligible. A household therefore picks one path, either night pricing on the whole bill under the EV rate, or its existing rate plus OptimizEV rewards for off-peak charging. The Baseline Tier pays a one-time $25 enrollment incentive plus monthly rewards in months when 80 percent or more of home charging is off-peak; the Advanced Tier pays a one-time $150 enrollment incentive plus monthly rewards for letting NYSEG manage charging around a ready-by time. Participants commit to 12 months, and the current terms accept enrollments through December 31, 2026, after the PSC's August 18, 2025 order extended the program past its original December 31, 2025 end date. On the commercial side, the EV Charger Make-Ready Program stopped taking new applications after April 22, 2026 under a PSC order issued March 23, 2026; applications filed before the deadline are still being reviewed, and NYSEG says any reopening would be for DC fast charging only. For ongoing operating costs, demand-billed charging sites with a Charging Ratio of 50 percent or more can apply for the EV Phase-In Rate, which replaced the earlier Demand Charge Rebate Program and waives or reduces the demand charge based on the site's load factor, with a time-of-use energy charge in its place.

NYSEG delivers electricity to about 921,000 customers across more than 40 percent of Upstate New York, including Tompkins, Broome, and Chemung counties. Its sister Avangrid utility Rochester Gas and Electric (RG&E) runs nearly identical EV programs but files its own tariffs and serves a separate, smaller territory around Rochester, so treat NYSEG's pages as authoritative for NYSEG customers only. Customers who buy supply from an ESCO keep NYSEG as the delivery utility; the EV rate still applies to delivery charges, but the night supply price depends on whether the ESCO offers day and night pricing, and the price guarantee compares delivery charges only for those customers.