I have the opposite effect: when they send you out the letters of how energy efficient you are, my mothership shows up on the “uses more juice than a grow house or tokamak” area. There is no way a two bedroom-two bath condo should be sucking down 1227Kw of power a month.
Judging by the other wonderful bits of construction I have seen, I have no doubts that the sparkies were as stoned as the plumbers when they built this place, and my meter is feeding every street light in the city, or something worse.
I had a similar battle over electricity in my previous home. Every few months I would get a letter from our supplier to say we had instructed a switch to another company (we hadn’t). We’d straighten it out, only for it to happen again 2 or 3 times, so after the third time I gave up and decided to wait for a bill. When we finally got one, the company tried to bill us for a bunch of other apartments in the same building (who had all been paying their own way with other companies). We eventually settled with them for far less than the actual cost of our power usage over the years.
Now in our current house, we have been there over 2 years and never had a water bill (which is not metered, but obviously there’s still a charge). I’m not in the business of chasing companies to throw money at them, I guess they’ll send a bill when they want paying. In the meantime I’ve got money put by to pay whatever bill eventually arrives, which means I don’t see how this situation can disadvantage me.
“Sir we’ve averaged your usage over the past 2 years, here’s your bill for $1,500, please have it paid by your next billing period.”
I had something semi-similar happen with my gas company. Got a bill for many thousands of dollars as a broke college student. The bill stated that I had 30 days to pay in full or face disconnection. It took me about 8 months to raise the money.
I spent an entire Canadian winter heating my house with electric heaters and taking showers in water 1 or 2 degrees above freezing. Girlfiend was impressed. :rolleyes:
