Northeast Ohio Area Utility Companies Need To Wake Up

Electricity. Water.Crazy rates. Billing errors.

First, from WKYC-TV:

On Thursday, the Office of the Ohio Consumers' Counsel filed a pleading with PUCO, asking for temporary and immediate relief from rate increases for about 100,000 customers of FirstEnergy living in "all-electric" homes.

The OCC, a residential consumer advocate, says some have reported being as high as 300 percent more than what they were paying a year ago.

OCC Counsel Janine Migden-Ostrander said, "FirstEnergy's all-electric customers have reported unmanageable rate increases this winter, and we are asking the PUCO to grant temporary relief pending the outcome of a thorough review."

The OCC's proposal would temporarily restore the original discounts applied to generation and distribution rates for more than 100,000 FirstEnergy customers currently living in all-electric homes. More

It's nice to see some advocacy starting to work.)

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Can't say the same about The City Of Cleveland's Division of Water.

Once again, homeowners, and probably some businesses, are getting water bills that are just plain wrong. Again. Want to try to get an adjustment?

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Comments

[Linda Evans]

Electric rates are rediculos. We have only a garage on our property and last month the bill was $3.18 and this month it jumped to $68.00. They have put all these fees on us like generation fees and transfer fees plus others. Where is this gonna stop.