About 30,000 Granite Staters who receive fuel assistance are eligible for weatherization help, according to one advocate. But the amount of help they'll be able to get remains unclear.
Community Action Agencies say the Public Utilities Commission’s recent decision to reject an ambitious energy efficiency plan is having an immediate impact on some of the programs that low and moderate-income Granite Staters use to keep their homes.
The PUC’s decision “brought things to a screeching halt” just as winter starts, said Betsey Andrews Parker of the Community Action Partnership of Strafford County.