Con Edison New York Utility Partnership

• See how Con Edison New York and DeNova Detect made history in a partnership to build the first-ever mass deployment of Natural Gas Alarms in the US.

Highlights

• Deployed 233,000 Natural Gas Alarms in New York with almost zero false alarms.
• Close to 400,000 natural gas alarms will be deployed by 2025.
• Due to the recent alarms installed, Con Edison New York utility customers’ lives and properties have been saved from newly discovered dangerous gas leaks.

Benefits

• New York City’s fire department can be dispatched quicker and with more useful information on the severity of the gas leak
• New York City can save money, time and resources by reducing false alarm dispatches
• Con Edison uses real-time data to minimize preventable leaks

RG&E Distributing Free Natural Gas Detectors to Low-Income Customers 

Avangrid, RG&E’s parent company, is distributing about 35,000 natural gas detectors to residential, low-income customers in New York over the next three years