Operation Fuel is a private, non-profit agency that offers emergency energy assistance to the state's residents who are not eligible for government assistance or have exhausted it.
Operation Fuel works with communities, businesses, governments and individuals to ensure that people in need have year-round access to energy assistance.
In the late 1970's, a worldwide oil embargo led to an unprecedented escalation of energy costs for households, especially for heating oil.
Although federal and state governments had developed energy assistance programs for poor households, low-income working poor families who were not eligible for government aid and in crisis were left out in the cold.
In 1977, Operation Fuel was launched as a temporary crisis intervention program.
The mission was to raise funds to assists those who fell through the gaps in government programs.
Thirty years later they are still dedicated to the needs of the community and responding to the same crisis - the potentially high cost of oil and gas prices for domestic heating and the unpredictable New England climate.

Counties served: Hartford County