These comments from the Maryland Energy Efficiency Advocates' Coalition include recommendations to ensure a stakeholder process for electrification and keeping low-income incentives with the state agencies that administer a suite of low-income energy efficiency programs.
Rooftop solar panels and other renewable energy and energy efficiency products hold great potential to help consumers, ideally by lowering household energy burdens while reducing emissions. The solar panel market is growing at a fast pace and increasilgly expanding into low-income communities, communities of color, and disadvantaged communities. As demand grows for rooftop solar panels,…
Read More about Consumer Advocates' Letter to CFPB Regarding Rooftop Solar Panel Sales Concerns
This webinar will center the interests of low-income consumers and the need to increase access to solar that can reduce the energy burden for those most vulnerable and tackle climate change.
Watch Recording Read More about Community Solar: Expanding Access and Safeguarding Low-Income Families
Appearing in Grist on September 23, 2024, Tik Root interviewed NCLC senior attorney Alys Cohen for coverage of how lawmakers recently demanded action from the Federal Housing Finance Agency after months of debating adopting a minimum energy efficiency standard for new homes. “Energy poverty is a real problem. It doesn’t make sense to keep building…
Read More about Grist: This tweak to mortgage rules could save homeowners thousands in energy bills
Winter preparedness is embedded in the Massachusetts way of life, but over the past few years it has become clear that policymakers and residents aren’t prepared for the new reality of summer in the Bay State.
Read More about MassLive: Time for Mass. to gear up for ‘summer preparedness’ (Viewpoint)
This letter from 27 groups urges the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) and Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to issue guidance on Inclusive Utility Investment (IUI)/Tariffed On-Bill Financing/Pay As You Save (PAYS) (referred to jointly as “TOB”) loans. These products are growing substantially in the market and, without clear consumer protections, pose significant challenges to consumers’…
Read More about Coalition Letter to CFPB and FTC Regarding Tariffed On-Bill Financing (TOB)
