Consolidated Edison Internship 2027–2028: Programs, Deadlines & How to Apply

Last updated: September 2026

Con Edison has been listed on the New York Stock Exchange longer than any other company, traces itself back to 1823, and operates the largest commercial steam system in the world. Underneath New York City it maintains about 93,000 miles of underground electrical cable and nearly 7,200 miles of gas pipe, delivering electricity, gas and steam to more than three million customers across the five boroughs, Westchester, and parts of New Jersey through its Orange & Rockland subsidiary.

For a student, what matters right now is the numbers. Three co-op requisitions are live on Con Edison’s own Oracle recruiting system at $21.63 to $30.65 an hour, all carrying an employer-set closing date of January 1, 2027. The Leadership Development Program is live alongside them at $75,000 to $78,000, closing December 31, 2026. Both pay figures come from the requisitions’ own salary fields, not from a job board. Con Edison is one of a very small number of employers that publishes its student pay, its deadline, and its GPA gate (a hard 3.0) in the same posting. It also tells you how to interview: behavioral-events format, STAR method, in the requisition itself. And every student worker holds a System Emergency Assignment, an emergency response role that can put you on nights, weekends and holidays when the grid is under stress. This is not a summer of shadowing. It is a seat inside the utility that keeps New York City lit, with an explicit ladder out the other side: summer intern, repeat summer intern, year-round co-op, then the Leadership Development Program at $75K–$78K.

Quick Facts

The three numbers that matter: $21.63–$30.65/hr published pay, a hard January 1 deadline from Con Edison’s own system, and a 3.0 GPA requirement in the Required block. Apply now; rolling review fills seats progressively.

Externships are short, remote professional experience programs where you finish a real project with a real company. The Hydroficient IoT Cyber Defense Externship maps directly to the Computer Aide co-op stream that accepts cyber security majors, and the EIC Energy Transition Venture Capital Market Research Externship builds the clean-energy sector literacy Con Edison’s recruiting pitch leans on. Explore all Externships.

What Is a Consolidated Edison Internship?

A Con Edison co-op is a paid, part-time, year-round position that puts college students into real roles across Business (Analyst Aide), Engineering (Engineering Aide), and IT/Cybersecurity (Computer Aide) at a regulated utility generating $16.9 billion in annual revenue and employing 15,097 people. Con Edison, NYSE: ED, delivers electricity, gas and steam to more than three million customers across New York City, Westchester County, and portions of New Jersey through its subsidiaries Consolidated Edison Company of New York (CECONY), Orange & Rockland Utilities (O&R), and Con Edison Transmission (CET). Beyond the co-op, O&R runs a distinct 10–12 week paid Summer Internship in Orange and Rockland Counties, and the company offers the Leadership Development Program (LDP), an 18-month, three-rotation post-graduation program at $75,000–$78,000. Interns rate Con Edison 4.7 out of 5 on Glassdoor from 12 intern reviews, with 99% saying they would recommend the experience.

When Do Consolidated Edison Internship Applications Open for 2027–2028?

Con Edison is one of the few employers that publishes its own application deadline in its recruiting system. The three co-op requisitions carry an employer-set end date of January 1, 2027, and the LDP requisition closes December 31, 2026. These come from the ExternalPostedEndDate field in Con Edison’s Oracle Cloud Recruiting records, not from a job board’s 30-day auto-expiry. The prior cycle’s O&R Summer Internship also used an "Apply by January 1" date, so the January 1 cut-off appears to be the program’s standard. You apply to a pool, not a named role: departments pull from the applicant pool, and interviews are "scheduled on an ongoing basis as needed" for the co-ops. For the O&R summer program, interviews are scheduled in April, with results shared within one to three weeks. That three-month gap between application close and interview is the process working, not a rejection.

How to read this page: our dates come from tracking previous recruiting cycles and daily posting data. Treat them as informed estimates based on historical patterns, not confirmed dates. The company's official careers page is always the most current source. If a role is posted there, go by that, even if this page suggests the window hasn't opened yet.

Why You Must Apply the Week Applications Open

The January 1 deadline is not a suggestion. It comes from Con Edison’s own Oracle recruiting system, the ExternalPostedEndDate field on every co-op and LDP requisition. The prior cycle used the same date. Rolling review means departments pull from the applicant pool throughout the window, and the first applicants get the most interviews. Con Edison’s co-op is a relatively small program at a 15,000-person utility: seats fill and they do not reopen. A student who applies in December is competing against everyone who applied in August.

The O&R Summer Internship adds a structural reason to move early: it requires an unofficial transcript and two letters of recommendation attached to the application. Professors are slow in December. Ask for the letters in October. If you wait until the last week of the window, the letters will not be ready and you will miss the deadline for a requirement most applicants do not know about until they open the application form.

Con Edison also publishes its GPA gate in the Required block, not the Preferred block. A cumulative 3.0 is a hard threshold, and there is no published waiver. Check it before you invest time.

Which Consolidated Edison Internship Programs Should You Target?

Con Edison runs three distinct student and early-career programs, and conflating them is the most common error on this topic. They differ in schedule, location, duration, and who they are for.

See all openings on the official Con Edison careers portal. The co-op is the most accessible entry point for current students, the O&R summer program suits engineering majors who want a structured full-summer experience, and the LDP is the post-graduation destination both programs feed into.

What Are the Eligibility Requirements?

Con Edison publishes unusually specific eligibility requirements in the Required block of every student requisition, not in the Preferred block. These are gates, not guidelines.

• GPA: cumulative 3.0 or greater, stated under Required Education/Experience on every student requisition. This is the strictest published GPA gate in this batch of employers.

• Enrollment: must be a full-time student enrolled in a four-year college program. Both bachelor’s and master’s students are explicitly accepted for the co-ops.

• Class standing: at least 30 college credits and upper sophomore status (preferred for co-ops; required for the O&R summer posting).

• Majors by stream: Analyst Aide accepts general studies, math, business, or related. Engineering Aide accepts engineering or physics. Computer Aide accepts computer science, computer information systems, computer engineering, data mining, data science, IT, and cyber security. O&R Summer (engineering) accepts Electrical, Mechanical, Environmental, Civil, Chemical Engineering, or Environmental Science.

• System Emergency Assignment: every student worker is assigned an emergency response role and is expected to work non-business hours during emergencies, including nights, weekends, and holidays. This is unique among corporate internships.

• O&R summer extras: an unofficial transcript and two letters of recommendation must be attached to the application. A driver’s license is required.

Does Con Edison Have a Hard GPA Cutoff?

Yes, and it is in the Required block, not Preferred. Every student requisition retrieved for this guide states "have a cumulative grade point average of 3.0 or greater" under Required Education/Experience. This is not a soft preference that strong project work can offset. It is a gate. If you are below 3.0, contact careerconnect@coned.com to ask whether there is any flexibility before investing time in the application.

What Skills Does Consolidated Edison Look For, and How Do You Build Them?

Con Edison’s student requisitions are notable for what they do not ask for: no SQL, no Python, no BI tool, no GIS appears in any student posting, including the Computer Aide one. The stated software bar is Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. What the Computer Aide requisition does instead is gate on major (computer science, data science, data mining, cyber security, IT), which is a different and arguably stricter filter. The real differentiator at Con Edison is not tooling but initiative: two independent intern reviewers, five years apart, reported having to invent their own work, and the requisition explicitly asks for a "self-starter, with a high level of integrity, initiative, resourcefulness, and creativity." A candidate who arrives with a proposed project is meeting the actual bar. Con Edison also names its interview format in the requisition text: behavioral-events interviewing with the STAR method. Practising six STAR stories is the highest-return hour a Con Edison applicant can spend.

Note: hiring.cafe returned HTTP 403; skill-frequency chart suppressed. Skills above come directly from Con Edison’s own student requisitions.

How Is Demand for Utility & Energy Interns Moving Right Now?

Build These Skills Before You Apply

And every skill Con Edison screens for maps to a remote Externship where you finish a real company project before the January 1 deadline.

How close is the overlap? The Hydroficient project puts you inside an IoT security problem at a utility-adjacent company, directly answering the Computer Aide requisition’s cyber-security gate. The EIC project builds the energy-transition knowledge Con Edison’s own recruiting copy leads with. And the Amazon operations project rehearses the data-collection, forecasting, and project-management work every co-op requisition names.

What Is the Consolidated Edison Application and Interview Process Like?

Con Edison describes its own process in the requisition, which is unusual and worth reading carefully. You are applying to a pool, not to a named role.

1. Apply at the Oracle CX_1033 careers site to the interest posting for your stream: Analyst Aide (business majors), Engineering Aide (engineering majors), or Computer Aide (IT majors). You are joining a candidate pool, not applying to a specific department.

2. Attach what the posting asks for. The O&R Summer Internship requires an unofficial transcript and two letters of recommendation with the application. The CECONY co-ops do not state these requirements, but a strong resume tailored for a stranger in an unknown department is essential because departments pull from the pool without having met you.

3. Resume matching by the hiring team. Con Edison: "If your resume is a match for a specific department opportunity, a member of the hiring team will contact you to share a more detailed job description and schedule an interview." Write for legibility: lead with concrete, transferable skills and clear evidence of initiative.

4. Behavioral interview using STAR format. Con Edison names the format: "We utilize the behavioral events interview format and recommend practicing the STAR (Situation, Task, Action, Results) response format." Have six stories ready: a conflict, a failure, a deadline, a team, an initiative you took, and a time you worked outside normal hours.

5. Offer and onboarding. Co-op: "If accepted, you will be notified and extended a job offer." O&R Summer: "We will share interview results within 1–3 weeks and provide offer letters for successful candidates."

Because co-op interviews are rolling and the O&R summer interviews happen in April, the total timeline varies. A co-op applicant who applies in September may interview in October. An O&R summer applicant who applies in December will hear nothing until April and should not assume rejection. Our HireVue question guide with a free AI mock tool covers the same behavioral-question pressure and STAR format Con Edison uses.

What the Community Says

Reddit has no usable discussion of the Con Edison student program, so the cards below draw on Glassdoor and Indeed, where Con Edison has the deepest intern review base in this batch: 12 Glassdoor intern reviews at 4.7 out of 5, plus three dated Indeed intern reviews including one from November 2025.

How Do You Stand Out at a Utility With a Pool-Based Application?

Four moves, all executable before January 1. First, apply in the first weeks of the window. Con Edison reviews rolling and departments pull from the pool on an ongoing basis. Second, come with a project idea. Two independent interns reported having to invent their own work. The requisition asks for a "self-starter with a high level of integrity, initiative, resourcefulness, and creativity." A candidate who arrives with a proposed efficiency improvement is meeting the actual bar, and one intern literally did it: they created projects to make their department’s operations more efficient. Third, practise STAR answers, because Con Edison told you to. The requisition names behavioral-events interviewing and the STAR format, which is a gift no other employer in this batch offers. Have six stories ready. Fourth, talk about the System Emergency Assignment before they bring it up. Showing that you understand a utility’s obligation to restore service during emergencies is a culture-fit signal that costs nothing and almost nobody thinks to prepare.

For the O&R Summer Internship specifically: get your two letters of recommendation and your unofficial transcript lined up in October. Professors are slow in December, and a student who learns about this requirement at the last minute has already lost.

What Other Companies Should You Consider?

Con Edison’s peer set spans the largest regulated utilities, all with formal campus programs that recruit from the same engineering and business candidate pool.

Our Exelon internship guide maps the most comparable peer program, covering the full landscape of regulated-utility internships across the East Coast.

FAQ

Can I still apply for a summer 2026 Con Edison internship?

No. The summer 2026 cycle has passed. The next open cycle is now: three co-op requisitions are live through January 1, 2027, and the Leadership Development Program is live through December 31, 2026. The O&R Summer Internship for 2027 has not yet posted but historically uses the same January 1 deadline. Apply to the co-ops now at the Oracle CX_1033 careers portal.

What is the Con Edison internship application deadline?

The three co-op postings close January 1, 2027, and the Leadership Development Program closes December 31, 2026. These dates come from Con Edison’s own ExternalPostedEndDate field in its Oracle recruiting system, not from a job board’s auto-expiry. The prior-cycle O&R Summer Internship also carried an "Apply by 1 Jan" date, so January 1 appears to be the standard program deadline.

How much do Con Edison interns get paid?

Co-ops are posted at $21.63 to $30.65 per hour, identical across the business, engineering, and IT streams. The Leadership Development Program, a post-graduation full-time role, is posted at $75,000 to $78,000. Both figures come from the requisitions’ own salary fields. The O&R summer rate is not published. Ignore Glassdoor’s roughly $36 per hour estimate, which is above Con Edison’s own published maximum, and Indeed’s $11.50 "low," which is below New York’s minimum wage. The requisition is the fact.

What GPA do I need for a Con Edison internship?

3.0 or greater, and Con Edison states it under Required Education/Experience rather than Preferred. Every student requisition retrieved for this guide carries the same requirement, as does the Leadership Development Program. There is no published waiver.

What is a System Emergency Assignment?

It is an emergency response role assigned to every Con Edison student worker alongside their regular assignment. The requisition states that you "will be expected to work non-business hours during emergencies, which may include nights, weekends, and holidays." When the electric, gas, or steam system is under stress, students are part of the response organization. This is unusual among corporate internships and you should expect to be asked about it in the interview.

What is the difference between the co-op and the summer internship?

The co-op is run by Consolidated Edison Company of New York, is part-time, runs all year round, can last a semester or longer, and is based in the five boroughs and Westchester County. The summer internship is run by Orange and Rockland Utilities, is a 10 to 12 week full-summer program starting in June, and is based in Orange and Rockland Counties. They are different programs with different postings, different locations, and different application requirements. The O&R summer posting requires a transcript and two letters of recommendation that the co-op does not.

Do I need letters of recommendation?

For the Orange and Rockland summer internship, yes: the posting requires an unofficial transcript and two letters of recommendation attached to the application, plus a driver’s license. The CECONY co-op postings do not state these requirements. Ask your professors for letters in October, not in December.

Does a Con Edison internship lead to a full-time job?

Con Edison does not publish a conversion rate, but it publishes the pathway in its own requisition text. The O&R Summer Internship posting states that "many of our interns return to the summer program multiple times, some remain throughout the year as co-op interns, and several join our company as full-time employees upon graduation through entry-level opportunities like our LDP rotational management program." The LDP is currently posted at $75,000 to $78,000 and requires a 3.0 GPA, fewer than three years of full-time experience, and a valid driver’s license.

Con Edison’s co-op window closes January 1, 2027. That deadline is real, it is in the employer’s own system, and it is not coming back until the next cycle. Spend the runway building proof: a remote Externship turns "interested in utilities" into a finished project a fall 2026 application can point at, and it gives you STAR stories for the behavioral-events interview Con Edison names in the posting.