Cuomo’s Con-Ed Con

Your electric bill is headed up yet again — because Gov. Cuomo needs a scapegoat for the subway’s woes and a piggy bank for repair bills, and he knows that Con Edison is a safe target. The Cuomo-controlled Public Service Commission is ordering Con Ed to pay not only for repairs to its own subway-related power lines and so on, but also for fixes to the system’s own electric infrastructure.

All this comes out of the summer’s dramatic failures on the subways, which sparked a dramatic decline in Cuomo’s poll ratings — and a desperate search for others to take the blame.

To be fair, Con Ed was at fault for problems back in April — and owned up to it the same day. But the governor’s claiming that the utility is responsible for 32,000 subway delays a year — a figure the Cuomo-controlled Metropolitan Transportation Authority can’t begin to substantiate.

Now the PSC has ordered the utility (which must accept) to start picking up major MTA repair costs — a ruling that, con- trary to usual procedure, wasn’t made public until three weeks after it was issued.

The move allows Cuomo and Mayor de Blasio to avoid diverting state or city funds to pay for the vital work — but ratepayers in the city and Westchester will inevitably have to cover the costs.

This, when about a third of your Con Ed bill already goes for taxes and governmentimposed fees.

As John Kaehny of the good-government group Reinvent Albany told Politico: “This is not how you fund public transit. . . It’s a way of charging and hiding the true costs of operation.”

Neither Con Ed nor the MTA is saying how much the electrical repairs will cost, but back in August (long before the PSC order) Con Ed Chairman John McAvoy put it in the tens of millions.

That’s cash that Cuomo ought to be supplying at the expense of his various pet projects, or getting de Blasio to cough up.

The public shouldn’t have to pay more for the politicians’ bungling.