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Originally Posted by Cinisajoy
Looking at your usage, I wonder what is using all that power. Something is wrong.
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I'd see about getting the wiring checked.
Decades back, I lived in a basement apartment that had belonged to the super when the building had a resident super. Things like building common lines were on the same circuit. I told the landlord when I moved in they would need to break it out.
I didn't get an electric bill for moths and months because they didn't. (And IIRC, it took action by the utility to force them to bring the electric service up to code before they did. I suddenly got a large bill, but shrugged and paid it.)
I've seen cases before where wiring was done wrong, or someone was deliberately leeching power to have their usage appear on someone else's bill.
This might be a case where the utility can be told "Look. This is what I have. This is what I actually use. I can't understand why my bill is this high. Can you please have someone check the wiring to make sure I'm not paying for someone else's power as well as mine?"
If they check and discover that's what's occurring, it might be possible to recover some money from them because it was improperly charged. (And if they balk, the state utilities commission might be gotten involved.)
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Dennis