Iowa's winter shutoff moratorium is an important health and safety protection for Iowa's low-income customers who frequently find that they face high home energy bills that are simply not affordable. An analysis of the Iowa data shows that the moratorium has been implemented without creating ...
Best Practices in Electric Utility Integrated Resource Planning Examples of State Regulations and Recent Utility Plans Authors Rachel Wilson Bruce Biewald June 2013 Prepared by Synapse Energy Economics for the Regulatory Assistance Project. Funding provided by the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy. Ab...
Some municipalities acknowledge the burden on low-income populations and have developed assistance programs to offset the additional burden. We found one program in the city of Portland, OR where the City offers sewer and stormwater bill discounts to families with less than 30% and 60% median ...