Rhode Island Utility Rate Assistance

• Rate reduction negotiated from a major electric company amounted to about 20 percent for low-income customers for a total of about $4 million in 2006.

• In 2006, one natural gas utility and a fuel oil company matched 40 percent of LIHEAP grants
  
  Electric utility restructuring legislation seeks to maintain existing low-income protections in the deregulated future.

LEVERAGING

2006: $5.8 million
2005: $5.3 million
2004: $5.6 million
2003: $5.1 million
2002: $4.8 million
2001: $5.1 million
2000: $3.5 million
1999: $2.7 million
1998: $2.8 million
1997: $1.4 million
1996: $2.2 million
1995: $1.3 million
1994: $1.4 million
1993: $1.5 million
1992: $699,573
1991: $300,000

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