QUARTER 3 HIGHLIGHTS: JULY – SEPTEMBER 2020 We use color-coded tags on individual highlights to help you find the news important to you. The tags include:
Energy Efficiency and COVID-19 SEEA is monitoring the regional response to COVID-19 as it develops and is maintaining a resource page with key policy information and links to resources from relevant organizations. You can view upcoming and previous COVID-19related webinars on our website. Additional News and Resources July 1 – How utilities can support diverse business entities impacted by the COVID-19 crisis, Utility Dive July 7 – Regulators reject utility moves to recover revenue lost to COVID-19 as analysts, advocates see trend continuing, Utility Dive July 10 – Clean energy unemployment claims in COVID-19 aftermath, E2 July 10 – Duke, AEP, FirstEnergy tell FERC future COVID-19 uncertainty presents significant risk, Utility Dive July 21 – COVID-19 puts spotlight on equity considerations in utility clean energy, efficiency, and relief efforts, Utility Dive
July 28 – Tidal wave of power shut-offs looms as nation grapples with heat, NPR July 31 – Southerners who can’t afford bills could have power disconnected in the heat of summer, Southerly Magazine August 13 – NRECA supports bill to keep families connected to broadband amid pandemic, National Rural Electric Cooperative Association August 25 – Utility shut-offs, summer heat, and COVID-19: A Dangerous trifecta in the Southeast, Southern Alliance for Clean Energy September 1 – Out of time: Regulators must prevent utility shutoffs, National Resource Defense Council September 14 – Pandemic, unpaid bills test utilities’ social justice vows, E&E News September 24 – Households of color more likely to have utilities disconnected, not likely to receive stimulus checks, Indiana University at Bloomington
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