Utility Bills

Have you ever turned off your heating or air conditioning in order to save money on utility bills? (Q.33 Wi2020)

COVID-19: Our latest updates as Philadelphia responds to COVID-19

This pdf shows the outlined contents of the Philadelphia Water Department's COVID-19 resource page. On this page, you can also find the information they have posted on the Water Rate Case hearings occurring March 16-March 18, 2021.Read more

If your utility bills have increased, how are you coping with increased expenses? (Q47)

Has a change in your income or your COVID-19's household income impacted your household's ability to pay utility bills? (Q.32)

Have you ever found it difficult/confusing to read your utility bill? If so, what makes them confusing? (Q38a Wi2020)

On a scale of 1-5 how aware of household energy use were you before COVID-19? (Q38 Wi2020)

If your utility bills have increased, how are you coping with increased expenses? (Q47)

If your utility bills have increased, how are you coping with increased expenses? (Q47, Cumulative)

Unpaid utility bills are soaring in the pandemic. Consumer advocates fear mass shutoffs loom

Energy companies are pressing the PUC to relax their moratorium on shutting off non-paying customers. Unpaid bills amount to $479 billion at the end of June. Utilities also blame the moratoriums for encouraging customers not to enter into agreements, where companies like PECO only had 2% of its...Read more

A tidal wave of utility shutoffs is coming: 34.5 millionhouseholds will lose shutoff protections in the next month: An impact analysis of changing utility shutoff moratoriums

This report was created by Carbon Switch, an energy efficiency investment company, that collected information on household energy bill accumulation and unemployment rates. Predictions made by the firm estimate a whooping 76 million households will be shut off or will be threatened with shutoffs...Read more

Utility Shutoffs Allowed with Restrictions by Pennsylvania Public Utilities Commission

This article released by the Philadelphia Energy Authority is actually dated to this past November 2020, when the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission decided utilities could resume shutting off customers who did not pay their utility bills. With the November provisions, utilities were allowed...Read more

What would you do if you received a shut-off notice and did not have the money to prevent the shut-off? (Q37 Wi2020)

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