Twenty years ago this month, HomeServe launched its first U.S. utility partnership to educate homeowners and offer optional protection against potentially costly emergency repairs to residential lines and systems. Today nearly 5 million homeowners are benefitting from...
Norwalk, Connecticut – 05/12/2023 – Every year during the third week of May – National Infrastructure Week – a little extra attention gets paid to the state of America’s infrastructure. This includes everything from airports, bridges and roads to drinking water,...
Anita I. and her family had to be innovative to survive a winter after experiencing a furnace failure in their Dunbar, West Virginia, home. Anita placed small heaters in bedrooms and the living room, but the electric system in the home couldn’t handle any more,...
Climate change isn’t doing our infrastructure any favors as heat waves melt roofs, roadways and airport runways, burst water mains, kink railway ties and crack bridge supports. The heat also is making us sick. More than 700 people in the U.S. die each year of...
On a sunny March day in Aurora, Colorado, Robert Z. noticed that it felt a bit drafty in his home. Upon further investigation, he quickly realized his furnace was not running, and despite his best efforts, it wasn't kicking back on. Although his furnace was not...
Low- and Middle-Income (LMI) households have historically faced obstacles to becoming more energy efficient, despite the outsized impact efficiency measures would have for this population. Low-income households pay more than 7 percent of their income on energy bills,...
A quarter of all U.S. households and two-thirds of low-income households have high energy burdens, meaning they spend more than 6 percent of their annual income on energy costs, and two out of five low-income households have severe energy burdens, meaning that they...
The transportation sector has been the largest CO2 producer in the United States since 2017 when it surpassed power generation, a sector which reduced CO2 emissions through the switch from coal to natural gas and growth in renewables. Transportation is currently...
Published by CenterPoint Energy CenterPoint Energy Foundation and company vendors and suppliers contribute more than $3 million to support severe winter weather relief and recovery efforts Houston-Harris County Winter Storm Relief Fund is helping the most vulnerable...
Energy efficiency is an important part of many cooperatives’ demand-side management and outreach efforts, but your message may be ignored, or your member simply may not be able afford the repairs, replacements or upgrades needed to make their homes more energy...
Twenty years ago this month, HomeServe launched its first U.S. utility partnership to educate homeowners and offer optional protection against potentially costly emergency repairs to residential lines and systems. Today nearly 5 million homeowners are benefitting from...
Norwalk, Connecticut – 05/12/2023 – Every year during the third week of May – National Infrastructure Week – a little extra attention gets paid to the state of America’s infrastructure. This includes everything from airports, bridges and roads to drinking water,...
Anita I. and her family had to be innovative to survive a winter after experiencing a furnace failure in their Dunbar, West Virginia, home. Anita placed small heaters in bedrooms and the living room, but the electric system in the home couldn’t handle any more,...
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