Common use of Utility-Only Programs Clause in Contracts

Utility-Only Programs. Equity and Eligibility 1. The Companies will provide reporting, tracking, and evaluation for IQ single family versus IQ multifamily programs. 2. Customers who receive weatherization services through a utility-only IQ program will not be required to make a co-pay on any weatherization measure offered. Consistent with this requirement, on-bill financing should not be offered to single family customers for their participation in utility-only income-qualified weatherization programs. Subject to the limitation of the Companies’ applicable tariffs, in the case of IQ MF weatherization, the Companies will provide guidance to their contractor networks that OBF should only be offered to building owners (if measures aren’t fully covered). The utilities will consult with the other utilities, interested stakeholders and CAAs with experience in offering income-qualified multifamily weatherization services in Illinois before establishing building owner co-pays or OBF terms for such services. 3. The utility will work with CAAs and the relevant implementers to ensure that contractors are not assessing residents a charge for a weatherization quote, either for IHWAP or utility-only weatherization programs. 4. All IQ customers are eligible to participate in any Non-IQ residential programs if they so choose. However, for those programs that first require engagement with the Companies or their website for enrollment, NSG-PGL will first educate the customers about the full range of services available to them in the IQ programs, to the extent it can provide more comprehensive service and/or eliminate or reduce any copays or financing, where appropriate. 5. A North Shore or Peoples Gas customer seeking to participate, or to continue to participate, in an energy efficiency program offered by said utility will not be required to demonstrate, or otherwise provide evidence or documentation of, United States citizenship.