In response to a Daily News report Sunday accusing the MTA of blaming Con Edison for subway system delays, Con Edison issued a statement Monday saying it is working with the agency.

During a tour of the subway system in August, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said the high number of power-related delays was because of issues with Con Ed, but the Daily News says emails show MTA officials admitted the company was only responsible for about 3,000 delays. The MTA has denied the report.

Con Ed said in a statement, "Our focus is on working with the MTA on solutions that will help improve subway service, which is vital to New Yorkers’ way of life and the region's economy."

The paper also says MTA officials sent emails deciding to expand the definition of what constitutes a power-related delay — and included incidents where power was cut off on purpose.

That wound up raising the number of those delays from 8,000 to 32,000.

An MTA spokesperson told NY1 that the agency did not fix the numbers to reflect more power delays.

On Monday, the MTA pinned extensive delays on Con Edison, blaming the utility for a loss of power in Queens that caused delays on four subway lines.

"The quality of the electricity that we're getting from Con Ed has varied," MTA Chairman Joe Lhota said at an MTA board meeting Monday. "We've had surges, we've had lows."

The Daily News reported Sunday the officials expanded the number of incidents that could be defined as power-related — just before Cuomo blasted Con Ed as the single biggest source of disruption for riders.

The paper said Cuomo's office kept pushing for the expansion until the MTA quadrupled the tally of annual delays blamed on power problems, to 32,000 from 8,000, including many incidents that had nothing to do with Con Ed.

Lhota, a Cuomo appointee, insisted Monday that the figures weren't fudged to target Con Ed.

He said the expanded tally was produced to highlight a Public Service Commission order for Con Ed to improve the reliability of electric service to the MTA.

"The request was made to take all of the power-related issues," Lhota said. "And put them together and just call them power-related without making the distinction, between, you know, what's a transformer failure, what's a blow, fuse."

Some MTA board members sounded skeptical. "We don't even have power-related delays as an indicator," MTA Board Member Carl Weisbrod said at the meeting.

Con Edison says it's spent about $50 million since the Public Service Commission order on upgrading subway equipment that includes switches, cable replacement, and generators.

The new head of New York City Transit, Andy Byford, vowed to get at what's causing subway problems.

"That's certainly going to be my mantra," Byford said at a press conference. "I expect my team to understand what the issues are out there and that we have action plans to tackle them."

Meanwhile, delays are rising again, to more than 65,000 on weekdays in November, the last month of available figures. That's the third-worst month in a troubled year for the subway.