Category: Utilities
Customer Can’t Understand CL&P Billing Practices, Sending Dunning Letters To People Who Pay On Time
This email came recently from a CL&P customer. She says she finds no justification for CL&P’s billing process for those like her who always pay their utility bills on time. I guess we need to keep looking at the billing practices of CL&P and its parent company, Northeast Utilities.
It seems that NU just can’t get [...]
Video: Newspaper columnist kicked out of electric co-op meeting
Every newspaperman or woman should get tossed out of a meeting every so often just to keep the instincts sharp!
Amish Fireplaces, Get The Costco Model, Save $$$
Despite everything negative having been written about the “Amish mantle and miracle invention,” if you want to buy one just like it and spend less than $200, including tax – GO TO COSTCO.
Yes, that is right, the Costco model was not made by the “Amish” and Chinese. But its much cheaper and Costco warranties all their [...]
Frugal Living Blog Sites To Check Out
The Wall Street Journal’s Blog Watch recommends the following three blogs to check for lessons on how to live on less money:
FrugalForLife.blogspot.com
Cheap-Living.Net
Reginadettra.com/wordpress
Please let us know if you found these sites, selected by WSJ editor James Willhite helpful or net.
CNG & SCG put layoffs on hold
Attorney General Richard Blumenthal and Consumer Counsel Mary Healey announced that — immediately after they presented argument at a public hearing today — the Department of Public Utility Control (DPUC) agreed to indefinitely bar layoffs at Connecticut Natural Gas (CNG) and Southern Connecticut Gas (SCG).
As Blumenthal and Healey urged, the gas companies are prohibited from laying off employees until the DPUC investigates whether the job cuts threaten safety and reliability and conflict with rate orders.
AT&T Proposed layoffs protested by AG and CWA
Attorney General Richard Blumenthal, joined by the Communications Workers of America (CWA), said AT&T’s plans to lay off more workers will further devastate families and service in Connecticut.
AT&T workers have been told by the company that there will be 2,500 layoffs nationwide, including at least 75 in Connecticut, despite the company’s massive job investments elsewhere. The positions to be eliminated vary, but include engineers and technicians responsible for maintaining quality service.
Conn Natural Gas Billing Complaint: CNG still can’t perfect its billing, failing to reduce rates for all customers as state regulators ordered
Customer complaints of billing irregularities by Connecticut Natural Gas continue despite CNG’s embarrassing episode last year when four of its meter readers made up readings for hundreds of customers.
Two CNG customers complained recently about CNG billing, including one that appears to be a systemic problem.
Joe Guenther of Manchester wrote me that he and probably others [...]
Heating Oil Dealers: Check around for best deals, you could save hundreds of dollars this heating season
While most people keep close tabs on what they pay for gasoline, interestingly enough few are as careful about what they spend on their heating oil, which could be as much or more than their gasoline bills.
Too many people stay with their oil companies without doing comparison shopping – checks that could save hundreds of [...]
Waiting for Comcast “guaranteed” installation: holding your breath not a good idea
John Shulansky of West Hartford tried to help his daughter, Karah, get her internet and cable installed today at her apartment where she is living while attending college.
She was given a guaranteed installation today between 8 and 10 am. At 10:15, she called and was told first, that someone was at the apartment at 9:57. [...]
Heating oil and propane tips from Ct Atty General
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