California Fuel Funds
- Cash donations for low-income energy crisis from private and
public utilities, cooperatives, city funds and church and community
sources.
- Relief for Energy Assistance through Community Help (REACH),
instituted in 1983, is funded by donations of about $2 million
each year from customers and employees of Pacific Gas and Electric
(PG&E).
- Customer donations to Southern California Gas Co.'s Gas Assistance
Fund are matched dollar for dollar up to $250,000 by corporate
funding from Sempra Energy. Contributions for the 2002-2003 program
totaled $428,084 and assisted 6,600 households.
- Southern California Edison's Energy Assistance Fund is an assistance
fund designed to help those in need pay their winter electric
bills each year in February and March. SCE shareholders match
customer donations dollar for dollar. Over the past 22 years,
SCE customers, employees, and shareholders have contributed more
than $11 million to EAF, assisting nearly 165,000 customers.
LEVERAGING (includes community and church donations)
2003: $6 million
2002: $5.8 million
2001: $7.4 million
2000: $5 million
1999: $4.3 million
1998: $5.7 million
1997: $4.4 million
1996: $4.9 million
1995: $6.7 million
1994: $5.7 million
1993: $693,175
1992: $12.7 million
Page Last Updated: December 7, 2005
