Press Release

NEW YORK, NY, Mar 17, 2008 (MARKET WIRE via COMTEX News Network) -- Carole Sobin has been named Con Edison's (NYSE: ED) secretary and associate general counsel, effective April 1. She had been vice president of Purchasing for Con Edison since March 2002.

Sobin joined Con Edison in 1988 as a senior attorney and had served as general solicitor in the company's Law Department. Sobin had also served as assistant to the Chairman.

Before joining the company, she was an attorney with the National Labor Relations Board in New York. Sobin is a cum laude graduate of New York University Law School and has a bachelor's degree in political science, cum laude, from Goucher College in Towson, Maryland.

Her community involvement has included a board membership with the Union Square Partnership and membership with the Young Audiences of New York, an organization that advances arts education and programs in New York City public schools.

A Manhattan resident, Sobin and her husband Jon Levison have two children.

Con Edison is a subsidiary of Consolidated Edison, Inc. (NYSE: ED), one of the nation's largest investor-owned energy companies, with approximately $13 billion in annual revenues and $28 billion in assets. The utility provides electric, gas and steam service to more than 3 million customers in New York City and Westchester County, New York. For additional financial, operations and customer service information, visit Con Edison's Web site at www.conEd.com.

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SOURCE: Con Edison Co. of NY, Inc.