NYC renter walks through her Con Edison bill line by line, then reads out its $2 billion profit after delivery fees push it ‘over $500’

A New York City renter posted a TikTok breaking down her monthly Con Edison bill, line by line. She pointed to each charge on screen, and the numbers did not sit well with her.

The renter, who goes by Bronxie, said her electricity use came to $191 for the month. She lives in a three-bedroom apartment with an Energy Star washer, dryer, and boiler. The heat stayed off since it was still warm. Her gas bill sat at just $5, mostly for cooking and hot water.

Then she reached the delivery charges. “We went from $191 to $294 in delivery charges,” Bronxie said. “So that more than doubles our bill.” That single charge pushed her electricity total close to $500 before she even added the gas charges.

Even the gas came with a delivery fee

Her gas came with a delivery fee too. Bronxie called it “basically 10 times the actual gas.” After the fees were added, she said, “we come out to a bill that’s over $500.” She added that more than half of that total came from delivery charges alone.

Bronxie then turned to Con Edison. She said Con Edison is privately owned. The company is investor-owned, though its New York utility operates as a regulated public utility overseen by the state’s Public Service Commission. Bronxie also claimed that a city department exists to help residents facing shutoffs. Midway through the video, she looked up the company’s earnings and read a figure aloud.

“Consolidated Edison reported an annual net income profit of $2 billion for the year 2025, which was an 11% increase from previous years,” she said, then added, “Oh wait, no, it’s more than that.” According to Con Edison’s own earnings report, the company recorded $2.023 billion in net income for common stock in 2025, up from $1.820 billion in 2024.

She ended the video calling on city and state leaders to act. She said she wants solar panels or a windmill on her building. She is not the only renter trying to cut down on electricity costs. One woman ditched her AC and unplugged everything, only to see her bill go up anyway.

The video pulled hundreds of reactions. One person said their grandfather once served as a public service commissioner. They said he “literally fought other commissioners of nys public service in court” over rate hikes. Another wrote that Con Edison “dosen’t control the Delivery charges.” They added that the state’s Public Service Commission sets those rates instead. Bronxie asked what that commission even was. The reply called it “a team of people that was hand picked by your Governor and state senate.”

A third person shared a similar bill. “Once my bill was $400,” they wrote. “Gas range. Live alone. No other major appliances aside from a fridge. I’m out of the house 10 hours a day. CRIMINAL.” Another renter’s landlord told the whole building to skip long showers to keep costs down, even though she already pays $1,850 a month with heat included.

One commenter pointed to the rate increases already approved for Con Edison. “The New York Public Service Commission approved a 3-year Con Edison rate hike for NYC and Westchester starting in January 2026,” they wrote. “So we have another 2 yrs of increases ahead of us.” 

The claim checks out. According to the New York State Public Service Commission, regulators approved a three-year electric and gas rate plan in January covering 2026 through 2028. The plan includes electric revenue increases in each of those three years, though the PSC said it cut Con Edison’s original request by roughly 87%.