The Low-Income Energy Network (LIEN) has designed an energy poverty toolkit. Inside the manual you will find: • a backgrounder on energy poverty that outlines the problem • a summary of existing low-income energy programs in the province and the current landscape • a list of barriers and common issues facing low-income energy consumers • [...]
The Ontario Energy Board (OEB) has posted an updated LEAP Emergency Financial Assistance (EFA) Manual for 2012, which includes an updated Income Eligibility Chart. The updated LEAP EFA Program Manual is effective starting September 19, 2012. LEAP manual The OEB has also posted the results of the LEAP EFA and Winter Warmth programs reported by [...]
LIEN is pleased to announce a great new resource called “Saving Energy: The 6-Step Guide to Tenant Action”! This Guide was written for people like you who want to help tenants save energy and money. Offering a simple 6-step approach to get neighbourhoods organized and working towards common goals, the Guide can help kick start [...]
A proposal for an Ontario Home Energy Affordability Program was developed for LIEN by Roger Colton, U.S. low-income energy expert, and submitted to the Ontario Energy Board. The proposal has five major components: rate affordability, arrears management, crisis intervention, conservation and demand management, and consumer protections. It advocates that Ontario’s low-income consumers should not be [...]
The Low-Income Energy Network’s (LIEN) response to the Ontario Energy Board’s Regulated Price Plan proposal.
