As the ongoing novel coronavirus pandemic has put additional financial pressures on many Londoners, London Hydro has announced it is doubling its annual contribution to the Low-Income Energy Assistance Program, which helps provide utility bill assistance and is distributed by the Salvation Army. “We regularly provide $200,000 toward this program but this year we have doubled the contribution,” CEO Dr.
Vinay Sharma explained. “We also made a request to Salvation Army to relax some of the rules so that more people can make use of these funds.” “For us, if customers do not pay the hydro bill, we get bad debt as a result of that which is a cost to the corporation and customer gets a bad credit rating,” he continued. “So this way, we provide