Duke Energy adding bill assistance - The Republic

PLAINFIELD – Duke Energy is dedicating an further $200,000 successful fiscal assistance to its Indiana customers who whitethorn beryllium struggling to wage their vigor bills. Qualifying Duke Energy customers tin person up to a $300 recognition annually.

Year-to-date, Duke Energy has aided astir 1,700 Indiana households with much than $378,000 successful vigor measure assistance done its Share the Light Fund.

Duke Energy works successful concern with the Indiana Community Action Association to administer assistance funds. Customers should interaction their section assemblage enactment bureau to spot if they are eligible.

A database of Indiana assemblage enactment agencies by region tin beryllium recovered astatine www.incap.org/energy-assistance.

“We cognize that our customers are facing rising costs for necessities, from groceries and proscription to their electrical bill, which has risen owed to escalating substance costs to nutrient electricity,” said Duke Energy Indiana President Stan Pinegar. “We’ve recovered that much of our customers could instrumentality vantage of the resources disposable to them, and we privation to link them to help.”

The institution besides is encouraging customers who whitethorn beryllium struggling to use to the Indiana Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP). The federally funded programme is administered done statewide assemblage enactment agencies and assists qualifying individuals with their vigor bills. The exertion play opened Oct. 3.

”We expect that with the rising outgo of earthy state and heating oil, arsenic good arsenic the challenging economy, the fig of families successful request of vigor assistance volition summation again this year. We are arrogant to spouse with our section work providers to administer the Energy Assistance Program to assistance Hoosiers with these costs,” said Jacob Sipe, enforcement manager of the Indiana Housing and Community Development Authority.

Hoosiers should interaction their section work supplier to use for LIHEAP. A database of work providers and much accusation tin beryllium recovered astatine eap.ihcda.in.gov.