Orange and Rockland Utilities, Inc. was born as the Rockland Light & Power Co. in Nyack, N.Y. in 1899 when S.R. Bradley combined a number of small local gas and electric companies.

That approach of merging smaller local companies into larger regional companies became the blueprint for the company's growth through the next 100 years.

In 1912, the Charles H. Tenney Company of Boston purchased the Rockland Light & Power Co. and began merging it with other smaller local gas and electric companies.

Tenney purchased Orange County Public Service, one of the larger utilities in the region, and merged it into Rockland Light & Power Co. in 1926.

In 1958, the Rockland Light & Power Co. merged with Orange and Rockland Electric Company, took its name, and became the modern corporation we know today as Orange and Rockland Utilities, Inc.

Following the familiar merger pattern that had brought it success, in 1999, Orange and Rockland Utilities, Inc., and its subsidiaries, became a wholly owned subsidiary of Consolidated Edison, Inc.