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Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program Division 10 Service 415 Program 415 Chapters 05 - 65 North Dakota Department of Health and Human Services
Electric Rate Reduction Devices 415-20-05-10-10 (Revised 10/02 ML #2812) View Archives
Households who have installed devices such as demand control, dual heating, heating submeters, etc., receive reduced heating rates. As the heating cost goes down, their share of the total bill also goes down, and the cost to LIHEAP goes down.
To encourage recipients who were eligible for Heating Assistance during any prior month of the current fiscal year, to take advantage of these rate reduction devices, the LIHEAP State Office will accept requests for funding assistance with the installation costs. The funding plan approved may: 1. Provide funding from "premium" benefits; 2. Require partial funding participation by the applicant, utility, and/or other sources; or 3. Develop a combination of the above. Individual proposals should be developed jointly by the recipient and the electric heating vendor and mailed to the State LIHEAP office. No payment of installation costs can be assured without prior approval by the State LIHEAP Administrator. Proposals should include at a minimum: 1. Customer name, address, social security number, county of residence; 2. Vendor name, address, phone number, and contact person; 3. Estimate of annual heating cost without the device, estimated annual dollar savings; 4. Copy of household's previous 12 months actual consumption and cost; 5. Type of cost reduction system selected and why; 6. Total cost of installation, availability of loan or other incentive programs from the company or other agency which will participate in installation costs, amount of customer's annual installment payments; 7. Who will own the equipment installed and be responsible for repair/maintenance; and 8. Proposed installation date.