My roommate and I pay around 40 a month for electricity in our small two bedroom apartment. The electric company apparently had a bad meter and when they measured our electricity usage for the first few months after moving in, we owed around 40 a month. Now they've apparently been estimating our usage based on those measurements and so we pay what is due.
Now they've apparently installed new meters and say that their old meter was off and we've been using around $80 of electricity a month and they want us to pay what they say the difference was back to them which comes to around $450.
He has been calling around to check out our options and to various resources to help with this and apparently our only options are paying it upfront or going on a 12 month repayment plan which would significantly increase our monthly electric bill, on top of it already doubling.
So is there any recourse here? It seems as though it was their mistake and we shouldn't be liable for it but of course that isn't how things work. To my understanding it isn't just that their estimated usage differed from our actual usage for a few months which is normal, but its that their bad meters had something to do with it and that's why the measurements and estimates were off for so long.
Submitted January 19, 2021 at 05:35PM by almosthighenough https://ift.tt/3sF3I4x
