More families are needing help to pay for heating as winter approaches

Revelations 18:23:’For the merchants were the great men of the earth; for by thy sorceries were all nations deceived.’

Important Takeaways:

  • Utility companies warn of rising prices, natural gas shortage
  • We are not anticipating the need for controlled outages at this time. While prudent power system operations requires working with our partners at the utilities and government agencies to discuss and plan for the worst case scenario, these situations are rare,” said ISO in a statement.
  • That doesn’t solve the problem of rising prices.
  • Brenda Watson is Executive Director of Operation Fuel.
  • They help families with energy bills.
  • Their next cycle of grants starts in December, but they’ve already seen higher interest and they gave out quite a bit more than usual their last cycle, which ended last month.
  • “We went over our budget by nearly 800,000 dollars, and we are concerned what the next few months are going to bring.”
  • “Fuel dealers are asking us to increase the grant amount because $5,000 isn’t filling up tanks with the price of fuel being what it is,” said Watson.

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