Reversing Energy System Inequity
Topics:
Low and Moderate Income,
States:
National,
Resource Type:
Report
Adoption Year:
2019
Abstract:
Families in America with the least means pay disproportionately more for their electricity, sometimes lacking basic access to service altogether. It’s a fundamental inequity of our current energy landscape, and one that can lead to dangerous repercussions. As technology, economics, public appetite and policy steadily drive the transition to clean energy, there are frequent decisions to be made at utilities commissions and other venues about how to implement, facilitate and accelerate the needed change. This paper highlights three foundational keys for getting decisions right for residential customers with the least means:
1) DATA: Collection and distribution of comprehensive residential customer data, broken out for low- and moderate-...
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