Needy

AGA Urges $5.1B in LIHEAP Funding for Fiscal 2007

The American Gas Association (AGA) has called on a House Appropriations subcommittee to provide full funding for needy energy consumers when it marks up a fiscal 2007 spending bill for the departments of Labor, Health and Human Services and Education Wednesday.

June 7, 2006

SoCalGas Proposes to Use Storage Cushion Gas to Lessen Winter Price Spikes

While pleading limited resources and the need to determine who pays for helping needy customers this winter in the face of rapidly escalating natural gas prices, a Sempra Energy senior utility executive told state regulators that the company’s Southern California Gas utility is considering tapping up to 5 Bcf of its cushion gas supplies in its extensive underground storage system as a means of tempering expected high winter gas utility bills for qualifying low-income customers.

October 10, 2005