Originally Posted by skirrby
ok power bill came in today, and my jaw hit the floor when i saw the bill. we(my roomates and i) havent made any large electrical changes at all,, my tank pulls the most out of anything lol,, and i havent changed anything with that. and our bill this month was 4x that of our normal bill... i live in a 1200 sq. foot apartment,, i just dont see how it would be possible to have a 433 dollar bill. when our normal bill even when having the ac going 27/7 was like 110 or so. could this be a error... the only change we made was picking up 2 floor fans from wal-mart that are only 25w each. i doubt this would have more than doubled out kw hour usage? anyone got any advice.. could they have made a mistake? maybe our meter is messed up? any help would be apreciated.
I am an accountant for an electric coop. Meters can be misread. Give them a call and ask them to send someone to read the meter again to make sure they did not misread. Ask them if they recently changed the meter too as new meters ccan malfunction...old ones too.
Make sure an enterprising neighbor has not somehow tapped into your meter/electric box.
Compare this bill to the same period from last year to see how much higher. Look at the kwh charge for the two periods. Unless you have a significant usage increase and/or kwh charge increase...your bill is probably wrong.
