Introducing GridRewards™
GridRewards™ is a free, award-winning app that links to your ConEd account to track and reduce electricity usage, earning cash rewards! The app offers tips to help lower your energy consumption to maximize your potential savings and earnings. GridRewards will notify you when energy usage is in high demand or at its peak in your area. When you take simple energy actions during these peak times, you earn cash rewards.
Sign Up in a Few Easy Steps!
1. Download GridRewards: Find the app on Google Play or App Store
- If you prefer to enroll on the computer, use this link.
2. Have your ConEd account number and general online access to your ConEd account before moving forward. To complete your enrollment in GridRewards your ConEd account needs to be linked to the app.
- If you prefer to enroll without inputting your ConEd account, text SIGNUP to 27557 to join our text-based GridRewards service — no app required. (For detailed energy data and more, download the GridRewards mobile app.)
3. GridRewards will tell you the rest! Make sure to have your notifications on and you’re all set. You’ll be able to start seeing your energy data and earn money by participating in GridRewards events.
Having trouble enrolling? See the step-by-step sign-up tutorial here. Or you can contact this helpline:
Email: [email protected]
Call: (908) 517-3730
Participation Details
When the app notifies you of peak energy times and you take action, you are participating in what is called a Demand Response event. Demand Response events are optimal times of energy reduction that usually happen on the hottest days of summer. If you need ideas on what actions to take, the app has a checklist that you can follow.
If you save electricity on all of the Demand Response events aka GridRewards events, you’ll earn your maximum possible amount of money. GridRewards will send you a check for the amount you earned! On average users get $80+ per household.
Where does the money come from? Participating utility companies want to incentivize customers to reduce electricity at peak demand times to avoid running old, inefficient power plants. Learn more.
Con Edison’s Smart Usage Rewards
Logical Buildings, the creator of GridRewards, is an approved provider of Con Edison’s Smart Usage Rewards Program. By enrolling in GridRewards you are participating in Con Edison’s Smart Usage Program, which is free for Con Edison customers in New York City and Westchester. See more on the ConEd website.

Eligibility
GridRewards is open to most Con Edison customers. Residents, businesses, houses of worship, CBOs, nonprofit organizations, and more can participate! Municipal buildings with NYPA accounts can also enroll in this program.
Who’s excluded?
- • Those already enrolled in the Con Edison Smart Thermostat program are ineligible for participation
- • Participants enrolled in Smart Usage Rewards with Nest or Emerson Smart thermostats are ineligible
NYSEG Customers
NYSEG customers get notified when GridRewards is available in your utility territory by filling out the form linked below!

Payment arrives in March 2025
- View earnings: 2024 earnings are finalized and can be seen in the GridRewards app under the Events tab, listed as 2024 earnings.
- Get paid: We’ve partnered with Checkbook to make your GridRewards payments super-easy.→ You’ll receive an email from GridRewards (the email address will be [email protected]) with next steps. Be sure to add this email to your address book so it doesn’t accidentally get caught in your junk folder!
→ You can collect your payment as a direct deposit, a virtual debit card, a physical check, and more ways!
Refer A Friend
Give $10, get $10
Have your friends, neighbors and contacts use your referral code when they create an account. When they save electricity during GridRewards events, they will earn $10 and so will you. Everyone wins, including the planet!
There’s no limit to how many friends you can invite. Groups looking to use GridRewards referral fee as a fundraiser for their local group, please contact [email protected] or materials and assistance.
Looking for a fundraising opportunity? Groups can use the GridRewards referral code as a fundraiser for their local group! Learn about a SW Community Campaign here.

Community Testimonials
Small Change Adds Up. Hear from your Westchester neighbors about their experience with GridRewards.
The Impact
2021: the GridRewards community prevented more than 200 tons of carbon from entering the atmosphere, an estimated 3.5-4megawatt (MW) reduction.
2022: the GridRewards community had a combined load reduction of 7 MW, enough to instantaneously power 25,000 homes.
2023: (Data to be filled in soon)
2024: Data coming in winter 2025
Donations made from GridRewards savings will also go to five environmental groups, including Sustainable Westchester!


Payment Details
The current GridRewards period runs from April 30, 2025 to September 30, 2025. When you sign up for GridRewards before peak season begins (April), you will receive the maximum rebate reward for that season! These dates indicate when the summer season begins and ends for ConEdison. Do not fret if you register for GridRewards after peak season begins, you can still earn energy saving rewards.
Payments are based on the amount of energy that was reduced by individual units during the summer demand response events and will be redeemable the following winter. GridRewards users can choose to be paid via direct deposit, a paper check or donated to a selection of environmental nonprofits! Please ensure to update your mailing address in the app if you would like to receive a check.
Please note processing individual performance data from the utility company can take a prolonged amount of time, so you are most likely to receive your reward by the end of the following year. We recognize this can be a lengthy time frame, but we will be delivering the reward as soon as we possibly can!
The Harms of Peaker Power Plants
“On days with extreme weather, like heat waves or sub-zero temperatures, residents consume more energy to stay cool and warm, which puts excessive demand on the grid. In response to this increased demand in electricity, highly polluting power plants known as “peakers” fire up in the South Bronx, Sunset Park, and other communities of color throughout New York City. These inefficient peakers spew harmful emissions into neighborhoods already overburdened by pollution, exacerbating widespread health problems. Peaker plants are a prime example of how low-income communities and communities of color bear the brunt of a host of energy and industrial infrastructure that poses significant public health and environmental hazards.”
The PEAK coalition—UPROSE, THE POINT CDC, New York City Environmental Justice Alliance (NYC-EJA), New York Lawyers for the Public Interest (NYLPI), and Clean Energy Group (CEG)— has come together to end the long-standing pollution burden from power plants on the city’s most climate-vulnerable people. This coalition is the first comprehensive effort in the US to reduce the negative and racially disproportionate health impacts of a city’s peaker plants by replacing them with renewable energy and storage solutions.
See resources from the Peak Coalition:
Peaker Power Plants: Inefficiency, Injustice, and Insights into an Electrified Future Discussed at Sustainable Westchester Webinar
Peaker Power Plants: Inefficiency, Injustice, and Insights into an Electrified Future Discussed at Sustainable Westchester Webinar