CONNECTICUT FUEL FUND

• Connecticut's legislature passed a law requiring all of the state's gas and electric utilities with at least 75,000 customers to facilitate the collection of donations for Operation Fuel, a statewide fund. Each utility shall include in its monthly bills a
  request to each customer to add a one dollar donation to the bill payment. Additionally, $300,000 in PVE funds was given to Operation Fuel for administrative costs over a five-year period.

LEVERAGING

2001: $802,838
2000: $770,081
1999: $683,200
1998: $573,546
1997: $787,200
1996: $629,400
1995: $581,594

LEGISLATIVE CODE

Operation Fuel, 1997, General Statutes of Connecticut, Title 16a, Chapter 298, Sec. 16a-41h