Pandemic Year Saw Fewer Households Struggling to Meet Energy Needs

SUGAR LAND--April 14, 2022--Written by Paul Wiseman for Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas)--Lower energy prices and assistance such as moratoria on disconnections and late fees may have helped more families afford household energy costs during the pandemic year of 2020. In 2015 and 2020 the Energy Information Administration conducted its Residential Energy Consumption Survey (RECS), in which energy affordability was a key concern.