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The COVID-19 pandemic presents an unprecedented challenge for low-income populations, especially energy insecure households. The combination of increasing energy demands with a reduction in income

Communities in the South are coming to terms with their new reality: life in the era of climate change. The region is highly exposed to

Energy efficiency programs and renewable energy can help address some of the disparities African Americans and other minorities face from fossil fuels, advocates say. But

This paper examines the persistent problem of high energy burdens among low-income households, based on a review of more than 180 publications that pointed to

LOW-AND-MIDDLE-INCOME (LMI) HOUSEHOLDS SPEND THREE TIMES MORE ON THEIR ENERGY BILLS THAN HIGHER INCOME HOUSEHOLDS DO, and the issue has been exacerbated by the global

Analysis of the first Pecan Street, Inc. webinar in the Race & Energy series. Industry experts discussed the energy industry’s racial gaps and how to

Black households have higher residential energy expenditures than white households in the US. This residential energy expenditure gap persists after controlling for income, household size,

Results of EPRI National Survey on COVID-19 impact on consumer energy use and outlook.

Energy poverty is typically assessed using the energy expenditure-to-income ratio as a metric. This metric fails to account, though, for residents’ demographics and regional variation

Data now verifies a pandemic-driven collapsing commercial-industrial (C&I) electricity load is only partially offset by sheltering-at-home customers’ spiking residential usage. Utilities have implemented measures to