Georgia Power, PSC present sustainablity project award

ATLANTA – Georgia Energy and the Georgia Public Service Fee will current an award for the Finest Sustainability Mission within the Religion Neighborhood.

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Georgia Public Service Fee Vice Chairman Tim Echols can be in Atlanta on Wednesday, Might seventeenth to current HopeWorks the “Finest Sustainability Mission within the Religion Neighborhood” award.

Since 1992, HopeWorks has been engaged in serving to seniors with power upgrades to their properties by means of a partnership with the Georgia Public Service Fee (PSC) and Georgia Energy. In early 2000, HopeWorks continued these power saving efforts by spearheading a brand new program with the PSC and Atlanta Fuel Mild to restore and change fuel furnaces and fuel water heaters. All of the householders HopeWorks serves are low-income and can’t afford a brand new furnace or fuel water heater when the outdated unit dies. This case forces these seniors to make use of costly house heaters to warmth the house or use harmful fuel home equipment such because the fuel range or unvented house heaters to supply warmth. This new initiative allowed for the set up of free power environment friendly fuel furnaces and fuel water heaters thus relieving them of the preliminary price of set up and can save them on power for a few years to come back.

“HopeWorks helps folks on a hard and fast revenue get dwelling power enhancements they in all probability would by no means be capable of afford,” mentioned Tim Echols.  “At this time, we honor HopeWorks for the good present of compassion they’ve demonstrated in Georgia for many years.”

Echols will current the award to the HopeWorks Board of Administrators assembly on Wednesday at 12 midday on the Church of the Apostles close to Vinings.

To search out out extra about HopeWorks, contact Michael Kimsey at mkimsey@hopeworks4us.org

To meet up with Commissioner Echols, attain him by cell at 706-340-0773.  That is the second of 18 awards being offered for Sustainability management throughout Georgia by Commissioner Echols.  Every visitor is interviewed for the Vitality Issues Radio present on Cox Media in addition to receiving a framed Georgia print supplied by YKK.