[6] The Public Service Commission was established in 1907. Notable former employees include Nora Stanton Blatch Deforest Barney[7] and Delos Franklin Wilcox.

[8] Reforming the Energy Vision (commonly abbreviated as REV) is a set of multi-year regulatory proceedings and policy initiatives.

The end goals of REV include reducing carbon emissions from the electric sector and opening up new markets in New York state for emerging energy technologies.

[12] The NYISO maintains an interconnection queue where it may be possible to calculate the success rate of utility-scale electric generation and merchant transmission proposals.

[14][15] The commission's regulatory oversight extends to the approval of retail consumer rate increase (or decrease) requests from the electric, water, steam, and local natural gas distribution utilities it regulates.

The commission approves (or denies) these rate requests because each utility operates as a monopoly service provider in its retail region.

[16][17] It may require many years for a project, depending upon the level of controversy, to proceed through the Article VII siting process, although it may take only 6 months to construct.

[19] Notably, Part 102 of the Public Service Law, for example, allows for the 60-day review of a 115-kV transmission line with a length of less than 10 miles, without a formal response from the commission.

[22] The generation siting process in New York is still fairly young – the Article 10 statutes passed into law in 2011 by Governor Andrew Cuomo.

Many of the comments posted by local community members reflect NIMBY positions or appeals to a perceived health threat from low-frequency electric and magnetic fields.

This bunker is usually staffed 24 hours a day for the duration of an event, and utility company staff may also be present.