Economic measures implemented to fight Covid-19 are forcing low- and middle-income households across the Global South to cut payments for basic goods, such as electricity .Consequently, many households risk losing formal access to electricity. This has consequences for reliable and secure access for individuals, but, high levels of informal consumption also threaten sustainability of electricity systems as such. Through a randomized control trial we evaluate a recently introduced debt-installment policy by the public electricity company UTE in Uruguay on reducing electricity informality. We send information treatments in the form of letters to non-poor households who accumulated debt during 2020. We test the effect of a policy reminder designed to raise awareness of the policy, combined with horizontal and vertical reciprocity treatments, on the likelihood that households remain formal consumers. We analyze the effect of different treatment arms using administrative data on individual payment behavior and original survey data, thus analyzing behavioral and attitudinal changes