Hernandez: EIA data shows 37 million US households face energy insecurity
Dr. Diana Hernandez · Deadly Bronx fires reveal America’s energy insecurity crisis · Mar 30, 2022 · at 8:21
Dr. Diana Hernandez, a Columbia University professor studying energy equity, cites Energy Information Administration data regarding the prevalence of household energy insecurity in the United States.
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“The Department of Energy's kind of Energy Information Administration has, you know, kind of said that one in three households, so about thirty-seven million households are energy insecure, which is just a lot of people.”
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