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Georgia Power highlights senior discount, $5,000 EASE weatherization and cites partnership with city violence-reduction effort
Summary
At the West Side Day Resource Fair in Maddox Park, a Georgia Power representative described a $33.50 monthly senior discount and an EASE weatherization program offering up to $5,000 in services, and said the utility is partnering with local offices and a mayoral violence-reduction initiative.
A Georgia Power representative at the West Side Day Resource Fair in Maddox Park said the utility is promoting an income-qualified senior discount and its EASE weatherization program to Atlanta residents.
"Those that are 65 and older get $33.50 off of their monthly bill," the Georgia Power representative said, describing the senior discount as income-qualified. On the EASE program, the representative said, "With that EASE program, you get up to $5,000, and we do things like caulking windows, insulation, and just making sure the savings are there, when that energy is being lost."
The representative also said Georgia Power is working with elected-office staff and city violence-prevention efforts. "We're in partnership with Atlanta City Councilman Byron Amos' office. He's 1 of our biggest supporters. We're also in partnership with the mayor's office of violence reduction," an outreach worker said at the event. The outreach worker described canvassing work aimed at reducing shootings: "So our mission is basically to stop the shootings and the killers. Me and my team, we canvass a community to to try to work with the most high risk individuals, get them to understand that, violence is is is not good for our community." The transcript does not provide further detail on the canvassing program's scope, funding or referral processes.
Speakers at the fair encouraged residents to visit vendor tables for program eligibility details. Specific application steps, eligibility verification procedures and enrollment contacts were not provided in the remarks and were not documented in the transcript.
