Green Hills Community Action Agency's Energy Services Program is responsible for developing, coordinating and implementing programs related to energy conservation and education. The department also manages the operation of the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) and coordinates with the agency’s Weatherization Department to identify potential customers, enhance partnerships with area utilities and provide energy educational opportunities.LIHEAP
The mission of the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) is to assist low income households, particularly those with the lowest incomes that pay a high proportion of household income for home energy, primarily in meeting their immediate home energy needs.
Energy Crisis Intervention Program
The ECIP program provides payment of energy bills when an eligible household is disconnected or threatened with disconnection. Other services offered may include repairs to the heating equipment, minor weather-stripping, other energy-related repairs, and purchase of a space heater or blankets.
Dollar More
Union Electric in the counties of Caldwell, Daviess, Linn, Livingston, Putnam, and Sullivan provides these funds through GHCAA for a maximum payment of $300.00 to prevent disconnection of an energy source. This program is on-going as funds are available.
Energy Aid
Mid-America Assistance Coalition in Kansas City administers the Energy Aid program. Funds are made available through Aquila and are operated in the counties of Daviess, Grundy, Harrison, Linn, and Livingston.
Utili-Share
The unregulated utility companies in the Green Hills area have established a customer donation program where by a consumer may designate an amount on their utility bill to be given to GHCAA so that monies may be used for the low-income to meet an emergency payment.
Put a Little Green In Your Life
The Put a Little Green in Your Life program is a "green" education program, offering workshops, seminars, and other opportunities for families to learn how they can make use of green incentives to save money and lead healthier lives.
If you would like to learn more, please visit the program's website: Put a Little Green in Your Life
Fire Your Clothes Dryer
With this project, 2 green jobs will be created and at least 200 outdoor clothes lines and 200 indoor drying racks will be given away so that clients may stop using their clothes dryers to save electricity. Clothes drying is one of the largest consumers of electrical kilowatts each month.
Community Gardens
A third project is a very large scale community garden project which will be located on land owned by the First Christian Church just north of the food pantry in Grundy County. It will help feed 180 families in Grundy Counties. Green Hills Community Action Agency will seek members of the general public to sponsor needy families for $150/year to plant individual, small gardens. GHCAA will teach gardening skills, as well as food preservation. Garden seeds, hoes, and soil amendments will be provided for participants. Interested persons wishing to plant a garden or sponsor a family are asked to call Terri Henderson at 660-359-3907, ext. 113.
