Consolidated Edison (ED) will raise its quarterly dividend by 2.4 percent to $0.63 per share in 2014. The utility company, one of the Dividend Aristocrats, has increased its dividend for 40 consecutive years. 

Consolidated Edison, Inc. is an energy-delivery company. ED provides energy-related products and services to its customers through the following subsidiaries: Consolidated Edison Company of New York, Inc., a regulated utility providing electric, gas and steam service in New York City and Westchester County, New York; Orange and Rockland Utilities, Inc., a regulated utility serving customers in a 1,300-square-mile-area in southeastern New York State and northern New Jersey; Con Edison Clean Energy Businesses, Inc., which through its subsidiaries develops, owns and operates renewable and energy infrastructure projects and provides energy-related products and services to wholesale and retail customers; and Con Edison Transmission, Inc., which through its subsidiaries invests in electric and natural gas transmission projects.