Arizona Conference Highlights Energy Poverty

Over 600 people are meeting in Phoenix, Arizona, this week (June 12-16) for the nation’s largest low-income energy conference.

“Cool Ideas / Sizzling Solutions” brings together three national groups at the Phoenix Hyatt Regency. The National Fuel Funds Network’s (NFFN) annual conference and the National Energy Assistance Directors’ Association (NEADA) annual meeting both convened on Sunday and Monday June 12-13, followed by the National Low Income Energy Consortium (NLIEC) conference that runs through June 16.

A special event was a news conference held by all three organizations on Monday, June 13, announcing the release of a study titled “Energy Poverty In Arizona” by David Carroll of APPRISE, Inc., Princeton, NJ. The study provides statewide data as well as from the Phoenix metropolitan area and will be published on the NLIEC website later in the summer. Representatives from the three organizations discussed actions needed to address both the energy poverty crisis in Arizona and the broader problem nationwide. Also speaking was Roger Colton of Fisher, Sheehan and Colton, Belmont, Mass., who has conducted studies on the home energy assistance gap in all states.

Source: NFFN, NEADA, NLIEC

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