Fight back your abusive electric company

Living Off the Grid in the City Radio Show. Electric companies have overcharged, stolen, from customers in many occasions. Mostly they “claim” these are “mistakes” “errors” or “booboos”. Never do they claim many of these are actions taken in hopes that no one will notice, and always with the ability to claim “ignorance”. So, if you have been doing your part in trying to save energy and money; yet you’re not seeing your good results, your electric bill remains high. There are a few things you can do. First, ensure that you really are saving energy. For this, you need to take steps to save energy, real steps. Kill your air conditioning and water heating as much as you can. Those should affect over half of your energy use. Second, you need to keep track of your electric meter readings. These readings should occur daily, or as often as you can at the same time per day, only once per day. After you’ve done these two things for months, then analize your energy usage, your electric bill, and visit and analyze your electric company’s website, especially your account details and your energy usage per their records. If after all these, you still see no major decrease on your energy bill, and you have found discrepancies between your records and that of the electric company, and you believe the electric company is stealing from your (overcharging you); you may take a few actions. First, be familiar with your electric company’s and your public utility’s commission regulations, rules, and agreements. Download those documents and read them. Educate yourself, you are your best defender. Call the electric company repeatedly and state your findings and demand a refund and a fix to the problem. If after a few tries you get no where. Up the ante and review the electric company negatively in the many review websites. State your evidence in these reviews. Protect your personal info in files you share. Also, report the electric company to the following companies, agencies, and organizations. Make sure you are serious about your charges and be prepared with your evidence. Enesure that; you are familiar with your electric company’s and your public utility’s commission regulations, rules, and agreements.
1. Consumer affairs (www.consumeraffairs.com)
2. Office of public utility council (for your state)
3. Public service commission (for your state)
4. Reliability entity (for your state)
5. Public utility commission (for your state)
6. Attorney General’s offive (for your state)
7. National electrical reliability corporation
8. Utility regulatory commission (federal)
9. Federal energy regulatory commission (federal)
Once you have contacted these by phone, email, mail, and or electronic form. You may further push your case by reporting it to online, print, tv, radio, or other news and information outlets.

Material in this video was largely taken from Ciber mixologo “How to Dispute Your Electric Bill and Fight Utility Company - Overcharged Electricity Bill”. At How to Dispute Your Electric Bill and Fight Utility Company - Overcharged Electricity Bill (youtube.com)
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