National Grid

[curiositykt.livejournal.com]

Have gas rates gone up?

I normally pay around 100 dollars for a month of natural gas in the winter and my March bill is 195.80. While March sometimes goes up slightly, in the years I have lived in this apartment it has not been over 150 (and that was that year that Natural Gas was really expensive)

My landlord told me that the gas company had been over to fix something on Monday morning so perhaps it had been leaking or the meter had been broken...

Is there any recourse for not having to pay a natural gas bill that is twice the amount you normally have to pay?
(I did check and I did pay the Feburary bill)

Therms Feb - 60 - estimated
Therms March - 139 - actual

Therms from 2008 (I don't have 2009) is 72 and 78 for Feb and March

So what happened is that the meter was wrong before and they took what they haven't been getting and added it into this month's bill.

Is this legal?

Comments

[treacle-well.livejournal.com]

How long's it been since your bill shows that it's based on an "Actual" rather than "Estimated" reading.

I had a situation once where something was broken so that actual readings were never happening, so it was estimated month after month after month. I was lucky that in my case when they fixed things and got an actual reading, it turned out that they owed me money.

[curiositykt.livejournal.com]

I'm thinking since 2006 or so, but I think this is only reflecting a year or so.