The lowest-income households have energy burdens that are disproportionally high and growing disproportionally fast

Trends in energy burden by percent of state median income (SMI).

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FPL

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Due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, the ACS 1-year estimates for 2020 did not follow the standard methodology. For this reason, this graph does not include data points for 2020.

Source: RMI analysis, ACS