High energy bills leave Rio Grande residents wanting answers...
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Action 4 Investigates: High energy billls
Many Rio Grande Valley residents were left in the dark for days by power failures attributed to Hurricane Dolly.
Two weeks have passed since the Category 2 storm tore through the area.
Many residents are beginning to receive their light bills.
The first thing many Action 4 News viewers noticed is that their July light bills were higher than June even thought they went days without power.
Action 4 News received a flood of e-mails and telephone calls from viwers complaining about their higher electric bills.
Harlingen resdient Diana Hale said she never thought her electric bill would be $532 after going days without light.
"I've never had to pay this much before," she said. "How am I going to do this right after the storm? We didn't even have power."
Hale called her retail energy provider Stream and learned that AEP had had estimated her home's energy consumption instead of taking a meter reading.
She requested to have someone come out to her home and manually read the meter but AEP asked her to do it over the phone instead.
That's when she discovered the company overestimated her energy use by 2,000 kilowatt hours -- energy she never used but worth hundreds of dollars.
.....more after the LINK!
Many Rio Grande Valley residents were left in the dark for days by power failures attributed to Hurricane Dolly.
Two weeks have passed since the Category 2 storm tore through the area.
Many residents are beginning to receive their light bills.
The first thing many Action 4 News viewers noticed is that their July light bills were higher than June even thought they went days without power.
Action 4 News received a flood of e-mails and telephone calls from viwers complaining about their higher electric bills.
Harlingen resdient Diana Hale said she never thought her electric bill would be $532 after going days without light.
"I've never had to pay this much before," she said. "How am I going to do this right after the storm? We didn't even have power."
Hale called her retail energy provider Stream and learned that AEP had had estimated her home's energy consumption instead of taking a meter reading.
She requested to have someone come out to her home and manually read the meter but AEP asked her to do it over the phone instead.
That's when she discovered the company overestimated her energy use by 2,000 kilowatt hours -- energy she never used but worth hundreds of dollars.
.....more after the LINK!
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There is a Solution to all of these high energy bills. Texas is Deregulated and that means Lots of companies have to compete for our business. The cheaper, the better. Here is a great link to get free quotes around the valley. I have this service and went from 19.9 cents to 13.5 with no switching costs. Cant Beat that
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