"Power Bills Just Doubled And People Are Losing It"

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Epic Economist, 8/23/26

"Power Bills Just Doubled And People Are Losing It"

"There is no host here, no utility spokesman, no energy analyst. Every clip was recorded by the person it happened to, most of them holding the paper up to the lens while they read the number out. A man who lives alone stands up at a county meeting and says there is no reason a one-month bill should be six hundred and seventy-five dollars when the house is pitch black - and names the data centres going up around him. A woman in New Jersey holds up a bill where the charge to deliver the electricity is now larger than the electricity itself. Then the people who tried to prove it was not them. A woman in Virginia whose bill doubled with nothing changed in the house, so she started asking her friends and found theirs had doubled too. A financial coach who was away for half of February with the heat off, the breaker box switched off and the fridge unplugged, expecting a bill under thirty dollars. A woman comparing what a D.C. apartment is charged with what her own three-storey townhouse is charged, and unable to make the two numbers sit together. A woman from one of the poorest counties in Kentucky whose bill was twelve hundred dollars for a house nobody had set foot in for three months, with a rate increase already announced. And then the end of the line. A man addressing the North Carolina attorney general by name, because two hundred dollars for a seven-hundred-and-eighty square foot one-bedroom used to be fifty. A woman in Ohio whose bill hit seven hundred while the state's own projections said eight hundred. 

A family whose power was cut off because they could not find a thousand dollars a month, in a place with no second provider to switch to. A household that had an electronic meter fitted without permission, watched the bill double, and were told the old meter costs eighty dollars to put back. A man opening the envelope on camera - five hundred and twenty-seven last month, six hundred and twenty-six oh five this month - saying he is almost relieved it was not eight hundred. And a man who is only home for eight hours of sleep a night, showing that a hundred and twenty dollars of electricity cost a hundred and sixty-two dollars to deliver. If your bill has gone somewhere you cannot explain, this is twelve people finding the same thing at the same time, in seven different states."

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