**Exhibit 24.1**

 

**Power of Attorney**

 

WHEREAS Consolidated Edison, Inc. (“Con Edison”) and Consolidated Edison Company of New York, Inc. (“Con Edison of New York”) each intends to file with the Securities and Exchange Commission, under theSecurities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Act”), its Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2005 (the “Form 10-K”) with any and all exhibits and other documents having relation thereto, asprescribed by the Securities and Exchange Commission pursuant to the Act and the rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission promulgated thereunder. 

 

NOW, THEREFORE, 

 

KNOW ALL BY THESE PRESENTS that the undersigned, in his or her capacity as a director and/or officer, as the case may be, of one or more of Con Edison and Con Edison of New York,as the case may be, does hereby constitute and appoint Robert N. Hoglund, Edward J. Rasmussen and Peter A. Irwin, and each of them severally, his or her true and lawful attorneys-in-fact, with power to act with or without the others and with fullpower of substitution and resubstitution, to execute in his or her name, place and stead, the Form 10-K for the company or companies as to which the undersigned serves in such capacity, and any and all amendments thereto, and all instrumentsnecessary or incidental in connection therewith, and to file or cause to be filed the same with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Each of said attorneys shall have full power and authority to do and perform, in the name and on behalf of theundersigned, in any and all capacities, every act whatsoever necessary or desirable to be done in the premises, as fully to all intents and purposes as the undersigned might or could do in person, the undersigned hereby ratifying and confirming allthat said attorneys-in-fact or any of them, or their or his substitute or substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof. 

 

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has executed this instrument this 14th day of February 2006. 

 

/s/    Kevin Burke 

**Power of Attorney**

 

WHEREAS Consolidated Edison, Inc. (“Con Edison”) and Consolidated Edison Company of New York, Inc. (“Con Edison of New York”) each intends to file with theSecurities and Exchange Commission, under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Act”), its Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2005 (the “Form 10-K”) with any and all exhibitsand other documents having relation thereto, as prescribed by the Securities and Exchange Commission pursuant to the Act and the rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission promulgated thereunder. 

 

NOW, THEREFORE, 

 

KNOW ALL BY THESE PRESENTS that the undersigned, in his or her capacity as a director and/or officer, as the case may be, of one or more of Con Edisonand Con Edison of New York, as the case may be, does hereby constitute and appoint Robert N. Hoglund, Edward J. Rasmussen and Peter A. Irwin, and each of them severally, his or her true and lawful attorneys-in-fact, with power to act with or withoutthe others and with full power of substitution and resubstitution, to execute in his or her name, place and stead, the Form 10-K for the company or companies as to which the undersigned serves in such capacity, and any and all amendments thereto,and all instruments necessary or incidental in connection therewith, and to file or cause to be filed the same with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Each of said attorneys shall have full power and authority to do and perform, in the name andon behalf of the undersigned, in any and all capacities, every act whatsoever necessary or desirable to be done in the premises, as fully to all intents and purposes as the undersigned might or could do in person, the undersigned hereby ratifyingand confirming all that said attorneys-in-fact or any of them, or their or his substitute or substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof. 

 

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has executed this instrument this 21st day of February 2006. 

 

/s/    Robert N. Hoglund 

**Power of Attorney**

 

WHEREAS Consolidated Edison, Inc. (“Con Edison”) and Consolidated Edison Company of New York, Inc. (“Con Edison of New York”) each intends to file with theSecurities and Exchange Commission, under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Act”), its Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2005 (the “Form 10-K”) with any and all exhibitsand other documents having relation thereto, as prescribed by the Securities and Exchange Commission pursuant to the Act and the rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission promulgated thereunder. 

 

NOW, THEREFORE, 

 

KNOW ALL BY THESE PRESENTS that the undersigned, in his or her capacity as a director and/or officer, as the case may be, of one or more of Con Edisonand Con Edison of New York, as the case may be, does hereby constitute and appoint Robert N. Hoglund, Edward J. Rasmussen and Peter A. Irwin, and each of them severally, his or her true and lawful attorneys-in-fact, with power to act with or withoutthe others and with full power of substitution and resubstitution, to execute in his or her name, place and stead, the Form 10-K for the company or companies as to which the undersigned serves in such capacity, and any and all amendments thereto,and all instruments necessary or incidental in connection therewith, and to file or cause to be filed the same with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Each of said attorneys shall have full power and authority to do and perform, in the name andon behalf of the undersigned, in any and all capacities, every act whatsoever necessary or desirable to be done in the premises, as fully to all intents and purposes as the undersigned might or could do in person, the undersigned hereby ratifyingand confirming all that said attorneys-in-fact or any of them, or their or his substitute or substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof. 

 

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has executed this instrument this 16th day of February 2006. 

 

/s/    Edward J. Rasmussen 

**Power of Attorney**

 

WHEREAS Consolidated Edison, Inc. (“Con Edison”) and Consolidated Edison Company of New York, Inc. (“Con Edison of New York”) each intends to file with theSecurities and Exchange Commission, under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Act”), its Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2005 (the “Form 10-K”) with any and all exhibitsand other documents having relation thereto, as prescribed by the Securities and Exchange Commission pursuant to the Act and the rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission promulgated thereunder. 

 

NOW, THEREFORE, 

 

KNOW ALL BY THESE PRESENTS that the undersigned, in his or her capacity as a director and/or officer, as the case may be, of one or more of Con Edisonand Con Edison of New York, as the case may be, does hereby constitute and appoint Robert N. Hoglund, Edward J. Rasmussen and Peter A. Irwin, and each of them severally, his or her true and lawful attorneys-in-fact, with power to act with or withoutthe others and with full power of substitution and resubstitution, to execute in his or her name, place and stead, the Form 10-K for the company or companies as to which the undersigned serves in such capacity, and any and all amendments thereto,and all instruments necessary or incidental in connection therewith, and to file or cause to be filed the same with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Each of said attorneys shall have full power and authority to do and perform, in the name andon behalf of the undersigned, in any and all capacities, every act whatsoever necessary or desirable to be done in the premises, as fully to all intents and purposes as the undersigned might or could do in person, the undersigned hereby ratifyingand confirming all that said attorneys-in-fact or any of them, or their or his substitute or substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof. 

 

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has executed this instrument this 15th day of February 2006. 

 

/s/    Vincent A. Calarco 

**Power of Attorney**

 

WHEREAS Consolidated Edison, Inc. (“Con Edison”) and Consolidated Edison Company of New York, Inc. (“Con Edison of New York”) each intends to file with theSecurities and Exchange Commission, under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Act”), its Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2005 (the “Form 10-K”) with any and all exhibitsand other documents having relation thereto, as prescribed by the Securities and Exchange Commission pursuant to the Act and the rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission promulgated thereunder. 

 

NOW, THEREFORE, 

 

KNOW ALL BY THESE PRESENTS that the undersigned, in his or her capacity as a director and/or officer, as the case may be, of one or more of Con Edisonand Con Edison of New York, as the case may be, does hereby constitute and appoint Robert N. Hoglund, Edward J. Rasmussen and Peter A. Irwin, and each of them severally, his or her true and lawful attorneys-in-fact, with power to act with or withoutthe others and with full power of substitution and resubstitution, to execute in his or her name, place and stead, the Form 10-K for the company or companies as to which the undersigned serves in such capacity, and any and all amendments thereto,and all instruments necessary or incidental in connection therewith, and to file or cause to be filed the same with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Each of said attorneys shall have full power and authority to do and perform, in the name andon behalf of the undersigned, in any and all capacities, every act whatsoever necessary or desirable to be done in the premises, as fully to all intents and purposes as the undersigned might or could do in person, the undersigned hereby ratifyingand confirming all that said attorneys-in-fact or any of them, or their or his substitute or substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof. 

 

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has executed this instrument this 16th day of February 2006. 

 

/s/    George Campbell. Jr. 

**Power of Attorney**

 

WHEREAS Consolidated Edison, Inc. (“Con Edison”) and Consolidated Edison Company of New York, Inc. (“Con Edison of New York”) each intends to file with theSecurities and Exchange Commission, under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Act”), its Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2005 (the “Form 10-K”) with any and all exhibitsand other documents having relation thereto, as prescribed by the Securities and Exchange Commission pursuant to the Act and the rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission promulgated thereunder. 

 

NOW, THEREFORE, 

 

KNOW ALL BY THESE PRESENTS that the undersigned, in his or her capacity as a director and/or officer, as the case may be, of one or more of Con Edisonand Con Edison of New York, as the case may be, does hereby constitute and appoint Robert N. Hoglund, Edward J. Rasmussen and Peter A. Irwin, and each of them severally, his or her true and lawful attorneys-in-fact, with power to act with or withoutthe others and with full power of substitution and resubstitution, to execute in his or her name, place and stead, the Form 10-K for the company or companies as to which the undersigned serves in such capacity, and any and all amendments thereto,and all instruments necessary or incidental in connection therewith, and to file or cause to be filed the same with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Each of said attorneys shall have full power and authority to do and perform, in the name andon behalf of the undersigned, in any and all capacities, every act whatsoever necessary or desirable to be done in the premises, as fully to all intents and purposes as the undersigned might or could do in person, the undersigned hereby ratifyingand confirming all that said attorneys-in-fact or any of them, or their or his substitute or substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof. 

 

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has executed this instrument this 16th day of February 2006. 

 

/s/    Gordon J. Davis 

**Power of Attorney**

 

WHEREAS Consolidated Edison, Inc. (“Con Edison”) and Consolidated Edison Company of New York, Inc. (“Con Edison of New York”) each intends to file with theSecurities and Exchange Commission, under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Act”), its Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2005 (the “Form 10-K”) with any and all exhibitsand other documents having relation thereto, as prescribed by the Securities and Exchange Commission pursuant to the Act and the rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission promulgated thereunder. 

 

NOW, THEREFORE, 

 

KNOW ALL BY THESE PRESENTS that the undersigned, in his or her capacity as a director and/or officer, as the case may be, of one or more of Con Edisonand Con Edison of New York, as the case may be, does hereby constitute and appoint Robert N. Hoglund, Edward J. Rasmussen and Peter A. Irwin, and each of them severally, his or her true and lawful attorneys-in-fact, with power to act with or withoutthe others and with full power of substitution and resubstitution, to execute in his or her name, place and stead, the Form 10-K for the company or companies as to which the undersigned serves in such capacity, and any and all amendments thereto,and all instruments necessary or incidental in connection therewith, and to file or cause to be filed the same with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Each of said attorneys shall have full power and authority to do and perform, in the name andon behalf of the undersigned, in any and all capacities, every act whatsoever necessary or desirable to be done in the premises, as fully to all intents and purposes as the undersigned might or could do in person, the undersigned hereby ratifyingand confirming all that said attorneys-in-fact or any of them, or their or his substitute or substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof. 

 

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has executed this instrument this 16th day of February 2006. 

 

/s/    Michael J. Del Guidice 

**Power of Attorney**

 

WHEREAS Consolidated Edison, Inc. (“Con Edison”) and Consolidated Edison Company of New York, Inc. (“Con Edison of New York”) each intends to file with theSecurities and Exchange Commission, under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Act”), its Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2005 (the “Form 10-K”) with any and all exhibitsand other documents having relation thereto, as prescribed by the Securities and Exchange Commission pursuant to the Act and the rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission promulgated thereunder. 

 

NOW, THEREFORE, 

 

KNOW ALL BY THESE PRESENTS that the undersigned, in his or her capacity as a director and/or officer, as the case may be, of one or more of Con Edisonand Con Edison of New York, as the case may be, does hereby constitute and appoint Robert N. Hoglund, Edward J. Rasmussen and Peter A. Irwin, and each of them severally, his or her true and lawful attorneys-in-fact, with power to act with or withoutthe others and with full power of substitution and resubstitution, to execute in his or her name, place and stead, the Form 10-K for the company or companies as to which the undersigned serves in such capacity, and any and all amendments thereto,and all instruments necessary or incidental in connection therewith, and to file or cause to be filed the same with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Each of said attorneys shall have full power and authority to do and perform, in the name andon behalf of the undersigned, in any and all capacities, every act whatsoever necessary or desirable to be done in the premises, as fully to all intents and purposes as the undersigned might or could do in person, the undersigned hereby ratifyingand confirming all that said attorneys-in-fact or any of them, or their or his substitute or substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof. 

 

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has executed this instrument this 16th day of February 2006. 

 

/s/    Ellen V. Futter 

**Power of Attorney**

 

WHEREAS Consolidated Edison, Inc. (“Con Edison”) and Consolidated Edison Company of New York, Inc. (“Con Edison of New York”) each intends to file with theSecurities and Exchange Commission, under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Act”), its Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2005 (the “Form 10-K”) with any and all exhibitsand other documents having relation thereto, as prescribed by the Securities and Exchange Commission pursuant to the Act and the rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission promulgated thereunder. 

 

NOW, THEREFORE, 

 

KNOW ALL BY THESE PRESENTS that the undersigned, in his or her capacity as a director and/or officer, as the case may be, of one or more of Con Edisonand Con Edison of New York, as the case may be, does hereby constitute and appoint Robert N. Hoglund, Edward J. Rasmussen and Peter A. Irwin, and each of them severally, his or her true and lawful attorneys-in-fact, with power to act with or withoutthe others and with full power of substitution and resubstitution, to execute in his or her name, place and stead, the Form 10-K for the company or companies as to which the undersigned serves in such capacity, and any and all amendments thereto,and all instruments necessary or incidental in connection therewith, and to file or cause to be filed the same with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Each of said attorneys shall have full power and authority to do and perform, in the name andon behalf of the undersigned, in any and all capacities, every act whatsoever necessary or desirable to be done in the premises, as fully to all intents and purposes as the undersigned might or could do in person, the undersigned hereby ratifyingand confirming all that said attorneys-in-fact or any of them, or their or his substitute or substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof. 

 

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has executed this instrument this 13th day of February 2006. 

 

/s/    Sally Hernandez 

**Power of Attorney**

 

WHEREAS Consolidated Edison, Inc. (“Con Edison”) and Consolidated Edison Company of New York, Inc. (“Con Edison of New York”) each intends to file with theSecurities and Exchange Commission, under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Act”), its Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2005 (the “Form 10-K”) with any and all exhibitsand other documents having relation thereto, as prescribed by the Securities and Exchange Commission pursuant to the Act and the rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission promulgated thereunder. 

 

NOW, THEREFORE, 

 

KNOW ALL BY THESE PRESENTS that the undersigned, in his or her capacity as a director and/or officer, as the case may be, of one or more of Con Edisonand Con Edison of New York, as the case may be, does hereby constitute and appoint Robert N. Hoglund, Edward J. Rasmussen and Peter A. Irwin, and each of them severally, his or her true and lawful attorneys-in-fact, with power to act with or withoutthe others and with full power of substitution and resubstitution, to execute in his or her name, place and stead, the Form 10-K for the company or companies as to which the undersigned serves in such capacity, and any and all amendments thereto,and all instruments necessary or incidental in connection therewith, and to file or cause to be filed the same with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Each of said attorneys shall have full power and authority to do and perform, in the name andon behalf of the undersigned, in any and all capacities, every act whatsoever necessary or desirable to be done in the premises, as fully to all intents and purposes as the undersigned might or could do in person, the undersigned hereby ratifyingand confirming all that said attorneys-in-fact or any of them, or their or his substitute or substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof. 

 

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has executed this instrument this 14th day of February 2006. 

 

/s/    Peter W. Likins 

**Power of Attorney**

 

WHEREAS Consolidated Edison, Inc. (“Con Edison”) and Consolidated Edison Company of New York, Inc. (“Con Edison of New York”) each intends to file with theSecurities and Exchange Commission, under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Act”), its Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2005 (the “Form 10-K”) with any and all exhibitsand other documents having relation thereto, as prescribed by the Securities and Exchange Commission pursuant to the Act and the rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission promulgated thereunder. 

 

NOW, THEREFORE, 

 

KNOW ALL BY THESE PRESENTS that the undersigned, in his or her capacity as a director and/or officer, as the case may be, of one or more of Con Edisonand Con Edison of New York, as the case may be, does hereby constitute and appoint Robert N. Hoglund, Edward J. Rasmussen and Peter A. Irwin, and each of them severally, his or her true and lawful attorneys-in-fact, with power to act with or withoutthe others and with full power of substitution and resubstitution, to execute in his or her name, place and stead, the Form 10-K for the company or companies as to which the undersigned serves in such capacity, and any and all amendments thereto,and all instruments necessary or incidental in connection therewith, and to file or cause to be filed the same with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Each of said attorneys shall have full power and authority to do and perform, in the name andon behalf of the undersigned, in any and all capacities, every act whatsoever necessary or desirable to be done in the premises, as fully to all intents and purposes as the undersigned might or could do in person, the undersigned hereby ratifyingand confirming all that said attorneys-in-fact or any of them, or their or his substitute or substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof. 

 

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has executed this instrument this 16th day of February 2006. 

 

/s/    Eugene R. McGrath 

**Power of Attorney**

 

WHEREAS Consolidated Edison, Inc. (“Con Edison”) and Consolidated Edison Company of New York, Inc. (“Con Edison of New York”) each intends to file with theSecurities and Exchange Commission, under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Act”), its Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2005 (the “Form 10-K”) with any and all exhibitsand other documents having relation thereto, as prescribed by the Securities and Exchange Commission pursuant to the Act and the rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission promulgated thereunder. 

 

NOW, THEREFORE, 

 

KNOW ALL BY THESE PRESENTS that the undersigned, in his or her capacity as a director and/or officer, as the case may be, of one or more of Con Edisonand Con Edison of New York, as the case may be, does hereby constitute and appoint Robert N. Hoglund, Edward J. Rasmussen and Peter A. Irwin, and each of them severally, his or her true and lawful attorneys-in-fact, with power to act with or withoutthe others and with full power of substitution and resubstitution, to execute in his or her name, place and stead, the Form 10-K for the company or companies as to which the undersigned serves in such capacity, and any and all amendments thereto,and all instruments necessary or incidental in connection therewith, and to file or cause to be filed the same with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Each of said attorneys shall have full power and authority to do and perform, in the name andon behalf of the undersigned, in any and all capacities, every act whatsoever necessary or desirable to be done in the premises, as fully to all intents and purposes as the undersigned might or could do in person, the undersigned hereby ratifyingand confirming all that said attorneys-in-fact or any of them, or their or his substitute or substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof. 

 

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has executed this instrument this 16th day of February 2006. 

 

/s/    Frederic V. Salerno 

**Power of Attorney**

 

WHEREAS Consolidated Edison, Inc. (“Con Edison”) and Consolidated Edison Company of New York, Inc. (“Con Edison of New York”) each intends to file with theSecurities and Exchange Commission, under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Act”), its Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2005 (the “Form 10-K”) with any and all exhibitsand other documents having relation thereto, as prescribed by the Securities and Exchange Commission pursuant to the Act and the rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission promulgated thereunder. 

 

NOW, THEREFORE, 

 

KNOW ALL BY THESE PRESENTS that the undersigned, in his or her capacity as a director and/or officer, as the case may be, of one or more of Con Edisonand Con Edison of New York, as the case may be, does hereby constitute and appoint Robert N. Hoglund, Edward J. Rasmussen and Peter A. Irwin, and each of them severally, his or her true and lawful attorneys-in-fact, with power to act with or withoutthe others and with full power of substitution and resubstitution, to execute in his or her name, place and stead, the Form 10-K for the company or companies as to which the undersigned serves in such capacity, and any and all amendments thereto,and all instruments necessary or incidental in connection therewith, and to file or cause to be filed the same with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Each of said attorneys shall have full power and authority to do and perform, in the name andon behalf of the undersigned, in any and all capacities, every act whatsoever necessary or desirable to be done in the premises, as fully to all intents and purposes as the undersigned might or could do in person, the undersigned hereby ratifyingand confirming all that said attorneys-in-fact or any of them, or their or his substitute or substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof. 

 

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has executed this instrument this 16th day of February 2006. 

 

/s/    Stephen R. Volk