OPAE Shares – Ramond Johnson, Gallia-Meigs Community Action
Ramond Johnson, lead energy specialist at Gallia-Meigs Community Action Agency, presented his strategies for working with clients while in their homes. Please contact Ramond if you have any questions or thoughts.
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HB 6 Repealed, Sort Of
The General Assembly bolted out of Columbus on March 25th, patting themselves on the back for passing legislation to repeal portions of the notorious HB 6. Even still-Rep. Larry Householder voted for the bill.
SB 124 […]
AEP Ohio Files Rate Case Settlement; OPAE Will Litigate
Rate cases take a long time to process through the system. AEP submitted a Pre-Filing Notice as required by rule on April 29, 2020, with the Application to set new base rates filed on June […]
Bill Payment Assistance – How Much Money is Out There?
The COVID-19 pandemic caused hundreds of thousands of Ohioans, and millions of Americans, to lose their jobs or businesses. This meant families couldn’t pay for the necessities: food, rent or mortgages, utilities, and health care. […]
New Water Assistance Program Starts to Rollout
I know that agencies have had to implement plenty of new programs during the pandemic: rent assistance; mortgage assistance; utility bill assistance from nontraditional funding mechanisms. Now a brand new program is inching its way […]
HB 6 Repeal Efforts Make Headway
Time to bring you up-to-date on the latest HB 6 repeal efforts. Increasingly, Republicans are jumping on the bandwagon to repeal the law, but not for the reasons you might think. Anyone with a brain […]
FERC to Fund Office of Public Participation
I tend to keep an eye on issues that are a little off of the beaten path. One of those is wholesale market operations, which are regulated by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC). Ohio […]
QuickFacts: Results of NCAF WAP Relief Program Survey
Published by National Community Action Foundation; February 10, 2021
We’re expecting that the Weatherization Assistance Program (WAP) will be a major component of an upcoming transportation/infrastructure/climate change proposal in Congress. Discussions could begin as early as […]
PUCO Roundup: Vectren EE Plan Approved
The Public Utilities Commission finally ruled on the Vectren DSM portfolio yesterday. The support was pretty strong, a flat out denunciation of the Ohio Consumers’ Counsels efforts to kill off all residential and small […]
OPAE Shares – Nicole Peoples, COAD
Nicole Peoples, energy services director for Corporation for Ohio Appalachian Development, presents the organization’s QuickBase cloud SaaS. COAD and their members use QuickBase to manage client projects, vendors and contractors. If you are interested in […]
COVID-19 Funds Allocated to Community Action Agencies for Rent and Utility Assistance
In January 2021, a Federal Reserve Bank study estimated that 640,000 Ohio households were threatened with eviction or didn’t know how they would pay the next month’s rent. Some of these households have taken advantage […]
ODSA Agrees to Let Agencies Use EPP Funds for AEP & DP&L Appliances
Weatherization providers know the refrigerator supply chain is seriously messed up. All are having difficulties sourcing appliances. The biggest problem has been with the AEP Ohio and Dayton Power & Light programs. The AEP Ohio […]
Biden’s Climate Change/Stimulus Package: What Does it Mean for Weatherization
During the campaign, President Biden said he wanted to weatherize 2 million households. That would cost more than $10 billion. The National Community Action Foundation (NCAF) recently asked us for feedback on […]
Congress Approves WAP Reauthorization
It is amazing what Congress can accomplish when it finally gets around to doing something. The Senate sat on additional COVID-19 relief legislation and the appropriations bills until the very last minute, but when the […]
Client Story – Ashtabula County Community Action Agency Weatherization Program
To the Weatherization Program Team:
We just wanted to write a note of gratitude for everything your team did for us. We feel it will allow us to live in our family home for the remainder […]
Bipartisan Effort to Allow Carryover of Unspent AEP and DP&L Funds Fails
Chaos continued in the General Assembly at the end of the session. The leadership of the two chambers threw up their hands in the face of two high profile issues – Governor DeWine’s veto of […]
HEAP Funding Finalized; No Additional Funding in the Pandemic Package
The Omnibus Appropriations Bill included a modest $10 million increase to $3.75 billion in the final 2021 appropriations package. The bill retains a hold-harmless formula, which will not affect Ohio’s allocation.
Advocates had […]
HWAP Reauthorized by Congress; Appropriations Increase
Interesting things happen at the end of a Congressional session. OPAE started working on a reauthorization of the Weatherization Assistance Program (WAP) in earnest six years ago, having conversations with legislative staffers and other […]
I am blessed Bridges CAP came into my life
To whom it may concern:
The reason I am sending this email is to give all of you and your employees a very big Thank You. With the pandemic hitting us all this spring, many of […]
HB 6 Scandal Continues to Grow
It is no surprise that the $60 million scandal that resulted in the passage of HB 6, the nuclear bailout bill continues to grow. In this case, it is the Chairman of the Public […]
PUCO Issues Revised Credit and Disconnection
Provisions Affect Natural Gas PIPP+
The five-year rule review of the Credit and Disconnection Rules – 4901:1-17 and -18 – has been completed by the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio (PUCO). These rules, as the name […]
Settlement This Week on PIPP+ Electric Riders
Ohio allows utilities to fund many discrete activities such as smart grid development or distribution pipe replacements through riders. A rider is an add-on to the distribution rates. It is generally not broken out. Riders […]
It’s Election Time for OPAE
I know how thrilled you all are of the prospect of another election, but this is one where you can be directly involved, and even run for election. It is time for OPAE to elect […]
Will HB 6 Be Repealed?
It remains unclear whether the Ohio General Assembly will enact any legislation modifying House Bill 6 – the controversial law at the core of the $61 million corruption scandal that has made state and national […]