Andrew Rosenthal, 25 March 2021, "Are you aware of energy assistance programs that could help with utility bill payment during COVID-19? Check all that apply (Q45 Wi2020)", contributed by Andrew Rosenthal and Alison Kenner, The Energy Rights Project, Platform for Experimental Collaborative Ethnography, last modified 30 June 2021, accessed 24 August 2024. https://energyrights.info/content/are-you-aware-energy-assistance-programs-could-help-utility-bill-payment-during-covid-19-0
Critical Commentary
The chart reflects responses to Question #45 from the Winter 2020 survey, which asked, “Are you aware of energy assistance programs that could help with utility bill payment during COVID-19?” The options available to respondents are “Yes, my utility companies have sent emails or letters about programs”; “Yes, I have seen them post about it on social media”; “Yes, other.”; “Yes, I have seen ads on TV”; “No”; and “I don’t know.” Respondents could choose multiple options.
Eighty-two respondents answered this question.
Fifteen respondents (18.3%) reported “Yes, my utility companies have sent emails or letters about programs.”
Six respondents (7.3%) reported “Yes, I have seen them post about it on social media.”
Thirty-nine respondents (47.6%) answered “Yes, other.” Of those that responded “other”, four did not specify (9.4%), eight heard of it from friends and family (20.5%), five respondents (12.8%) had heard of them from their jobs, three respondents (7.7%) answered word of mouth, and fourteen (35.9%) heard about them from the ECA or neighborhood energy centers.
Six respondents (7.3%) reported, “Yes, I have seen ads on TV.”
Nineteen respondents (23.2%) responded “No.”
Three respondents (3.6%) reported “I don’t know.”
The data was produced by the Shifting Energy Demands in COVID-19 Survey - Overview, which was administered to 83 people over a fourteen week period between December 2020 and March 2021. Visit the Winter 2020 Shifting Energy Demands in COVID-19 - Survey Results page to view more data from our survey. The project is approved by Drexel’s IRB.