Customers Get Billion-Dollar Power Bills
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WEATHERFORD, Texas - Perhaps his $24 billion electric bill will teach Richard Redden not to leave the heat running. Thanks to a printing error, Redden and more than 1,300 Weatherford utility customers this week received billion-dollar electric bills marked as late notices.
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For travelers in search of an open power outlet for their laptops or cellphones at airports now have another option.
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Opening up electricity markets to competition was supposed to lead to savings for consumers. Instead, bills have soared in several states and the power industry is warning of a looming crisis.
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Southern New England's two biggest utilities are developing plans to spend potentially $1 billion constructing 80 to 100 miles of high-voltage electric transmission lines to make the regional power grid more reliable and keep up with steadily growing energy demand.
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Watch out, cable. Reddy Kilowatt can now invade your turf as the FCC on Thursday approved regulations that allow power companies to provide broadband services.
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Residential customers of National Grid USA , the biggest Massachusetts electric utility, face an average rate increase of 13.1 percent, or $10 a month, starting Nov. 1, under rates National Grid requested yesterday.
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Sun adds several business partners to a plan to offer supercomputing centers that customers can pay to use according power consumed.
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Water bills will depend on the size of customer homes under a new billing system from Thames Water.
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Legislators are trying to attach tax breaks as part of a broad energy bill to an emergency economic aid package containing rebates for millions of taxpayers
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Giving people the tools to monitor and adjust their electricity use lowers their bills and could reduce the need to build new power plants, according to a government study.
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Customers of investor-owned electric utilities must cover all the expenses of these legal monopolies in the rates they pay. But what happens when a utility owner
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Florida Power &amp; Light plans to ask regulators for an increase in what it can charge customers for electricity in part to recover costs from three hurricanes that hit its service area in August and September.
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More than 6m households face a 15% jump in fuel bills from today after Britain's fourth largest energy supplier, npower, confirmed details of its plans to raise prices. Competitors are widely expected to follow suit, marking a return of annual fuel bills of more than Â£1,000.
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Cell phone customers increasingly complain--and sue--over mysterious, hard-to-cancel charges on their monthly bills.
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Consumers face uncertainty over what they will be paying for their gas and electricity this winter.
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These solar companies shine a light on their way to fast cash.
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Energy executives whose organizations are pioneering the delivery of broadband-over-power-line services see potential in new consumer revenue streams and utility applications such as real-time grid monitoring.