Citizens Energy Corporation
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Citizens Energy Corporation is a non-profit organization that primarily aids the poor in the United States
and throughout the world by organizing projects to provide discounted and free home heating services and supplies.
In 1979, using oil-trading ventures in Latin America
and Africa
, Citizens Energy began taking revenues from commercial enterprises to channel millions of dollars into charitable programs in the US and across the world.
Citizens Energy has grown into seven separate companies, including one of the largest energy conservation firms in the U.S. It became one of the nation's first energy firms to move large volumes of natural gas to more than 30 U.S. states. As a precursor to market changes under electricity deregulation in the late 1990s, Citizens was a pioneer in moving and marketing electrical power over the grid.
Citizens Energy currently provides free home heating oil for the elderly and the poor, lowers the cost of prescription drugs for millions of Americans citizens, and has started solar heating projects in Jamaica
and Venezuela
. Citizens creates these social ventures through financing by various businesses.
Its founder and chairman is former Massachusetts
Democratic Representative
Joseph Patrick Kennedy II
.
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
and throughout the world by organizing projects to provide discounted and free home heating services and supplies.
In 1979, using oil-trading ventures in Latin America
Latin America
Latin America is a region of the Americas where Romance languages – particularly Spanish and Portuguese, and variably French – are primarily spoken. Latin America has an area of approximately 21,069,500 km² , almost 3.9% of the Earth's surface or 14.1% of its land surface area...
and Africa
Africa
Africa is the world's second largest and second most populous continent, after Asia. At about 30.2 million km² including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of the Earth's total surface area and 20.4% of the total land area...
, Citizens Energy began taking revenues from commercial enterprises to channel millions of dollars into charitable programs in the US and across the world.
Citizens Energy has grown into seven separate companies, including one of the largest energy conservation firms in the U.S. It became one of the nation's first energy firms to move large volumes of natural gas to more than 30 U.S. states. As a precursor to market changes under electricity deregulation in the late 1990s, Citizens was a pioneer in moving and marketing electrical power over the grid.
Citizens Energy currently provides free home heating oil for the elderly and the poor, lowers the cost of prescription drugs for millions of Americans citizens, and has started solar heating projects in Jamaica
Jamaica
Jamaica is an island nation of the Greater Antilles, in length, up to in width and 10,990 square kilometres in area. It is situated in the Caribbean Sea, about south of Cuba, and west of Hispaniola, the island harbouring the nation-states Haiti and the Dominican Republic...
and Venezuela
Venezuela
Venezuela , officially called the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela , is a tropical country on the northern coast of South America. It borders Colombia to the west, Guyana to the east, and Brazil to the south...
. Citizens creates these social ventures through financing by various businesses.
Its founder and chairman is former Massachusetts
Massachusetts
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States of America. It is bordered by Rhode Island and Connecticut to the south, New York to the west, and Vermont and New Hampshire to the north; at its east lies the Atlantic Ocean. As of the 2010...
Democratic Representative
United States House of Representatives
The United States House of Representatives is one of the two Houses of the United States Congress, the bicameral legislature which also includes the Senate.The composition and powers of the House are established in Article One of the Constitution...
Joseph Patrick Kennedy II
Joseph Patrick Kennedy II
Joseph Patrick Kennedy II is an American businessman and Democratic politician.He served as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from the 8th congressional district of Massachusetts from 1987 to 1999. In 1979 he founded and led until election to the U.S...
.
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