My cousin could not afford that. She has numerous other people to get with up there in Dallas who are in the same boat. The power company was turning people electric off for non-pay. They just say the meters are not the trouble. there “must” be some up-age of usage and they just won’t listen. From what I hear there are some politicians who are going to get an investigation started. If it was a few that would be one thing, but there are a LOT of people who have had at least doubled electric bills.
I smell a class-action lawsuit.
If there are indeed a lot of people affected, she will have no trouble finding a hungry attorney willing to front the money needed to demonstrate the power company is ripping off its customers. If it can be proven the company was doing this intentionally or even negligently, there is perhaps the possibility of punitive damages, which gets attorneys drooling all over the place.
Of course, there is also the at least equally possible scenario that her former meter was inaccurate and she got a free ride for a bunch of years.