That survivor website has at least one error: it’s not illegal to disconnect power in Alabama. Of course, that’s impractical anyway in most situations.
I’m thinking you could disconnect power simply by removing every fuse in your fuse box. Then unless you have some kind of monthly service charge, your electric bill would be zero.
And then evidently off to jail you go if you live in Arizona.
In places where it’s legal to be off the grid, like Wyoming (I believe), you are better off when you start out never being hooked up. Here, they will be happy to “disconnect” you if you don’t pay your bill in 60 days, but they just turn off your meter. If you ask to be disconnected, they leave the line and the meter, and I don’t believe they will remove it even on request. If storm damage happens to the external lines on your property but not on the street, they will charge you to repair them, but they still will not remove them.