Low-income and consumer issues
Up one levelNo one should ever have to choose
whether to heat or eat.
Electricity is a necessity of modern life. The Energy Coalition advocates programs that provide home weatherization and bill assistance so that low-income families don't lose their service or suffer exorbitant energy costs. And all residential utility costumers deserve protection from poor electric service and unfair rate hikes.
- Protecting the Climate and Consumers
- In this podcast from the 2008 Spring Conference and Board Meeting in Helena, MT, State Rep. Mary Caferro and a panel of consumer advocates and climate change experts explore the impacts of climate legislation on low-income communities.
- Energy Matters Update - January 14, 2008
- Longtime NW Energy Coalition member Oregon HEAT has come up with another groundbreaking way to help low-income families cope with steep heating bills … and benefit the environment at the same time...
- Energy Matters Update - Innovative waste-oil recycling program helps families pay power bills
- Longtime NW Energy Coalition member Oregon HEAT has come up with another groundbreaking way to help low-income families cope with steep heating bills … and benefit the environment at the same time...
- Final BPA plan an improvement
- Bonneville Power Administration made significant improvements in its “Regional Dialogue” plan for providing electricity to publicly owned utilities in the Northwest. Improving the plan was a primary focus of the NW Energy Coalition’s Energy Matters campaign...
- Citizens Energy Plan
- A clean and affordable energy future for the Northwest begins with reliable electricity services, ample enough to satisfy our basic human needs, improve our quality of life, protect the environment and create a vital local and regional economy. By concentrating on the long term rather than gambling on the short term, we can meet the region's growing demand for electricity without mortgaging our grandchildren's future, driving wild salmon to extinction or increasing global warming.
- 2002 Low Income Assistance Programs Evaluation
- Prepared for: Eugene Water & Electric Board, August 26, 2002
- Energy Matters Update - December 6, 2007
- PacifiCorp, the Northwest’s largest utility, has abandoned plans to build two new pulverized coal plants. The company’s decision, delivered to both the Oregon and Utah utility commissions, is the product of years of efforts by NW Energy Coalition staff, member organizations and other allies...
- FAQ: Energy conservation, renewable resources and low-income weatherization
- Why are investments in energy conservation, renewable resources and low-income weatherization so important?
- The Energy Activist - Spring 2006
- Out of Balance - Low income energy crisis (PDF File 928KB)
- Climate justice: Impacts in the Pacific Northwest
- Randy Poplocks' Powerpoint presentation on the effects of Climate Change on low-income residents of the Pacific Northwest (1.1MB Compressed Zip file)