Herald readers still sounding off about unusually high electric bills To the Editor:

Fortunately, I closed my storage building in December 2009. The meter was reading 695 or 0 kilowatt-hours used and that was indicated on my January 2010 billing.

The next billing in February indicated that 910 kws were used between Jan. 7 through Jan. 13, and mind you, this building had not been opened yet.

The old meter supposedly read 1605.

Therefore, the meter reader gave an erroneous reading, causing a major difference in the billing.

I have called Reliant and have spoken with an Oncor representative.

It’s obvious that an error was made.

I believe that everyone should have the opportunity to verify their meter readings when closing out the old meters and installing the new ones.

Maybe some of the high billings may have been adverted.

Thank God, the Oncor rep that I spoke to admitted that the meter was misread and the problem should be resolved in a few days.

It is said that it will take about 21 days to repair my bill.

Posted on Sunday, March 07, 2010 by Willie Mitchell Killeen