WARD LENZ: Helping households keep the lights on, now and later
Thursday, July 30, 2020 -- As of last month, households in North Carolina were as much as $253 million behind in utility payments. Hundreds of thousands of our relatives, friends and neighbors will be unable to pay their past-due bills, keep the lights on, attend online schools and cool their homes. This problem needs both a short and a long-term solution. We're in crisis mode now, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't consider how to address the energy burden many North Carolinians face, pandemic or not.