Texas Woman?s Shock At $1.3 Million Electricity Bill

June 22nd, 2012

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Almost like winning the lottery in reverse, the colossal $1.3 million electricity bill has stunned a woman from Texas. Luckily it was down to a bad computer glitch, but imagine opening that bill!. Still she didn?t have to pay it, or anything like it. In fact she should have paid around $100 instead.

A Texas Woman Was Stumped When This $1.3 Million Electric Bill

For Abilene, TX. resident Kristin Harriger, skipping bills is out of the question, even when summertime sends her electric bill soaring.

"I work on a budget. I?m a single mom with an autistic child who tries to make ends meet," she told Business Insider. "I get my bills and I pay them."

That was until this month?s electric bill turned up in the mail. Rather than the $100 or so she anticipated, she was in for a shock.

Balance due: $1,381,783.92

The bill was so enormous she figured it was a joke and texted photos around to friends. When she called the utility company, Potentia Energy, representatives readily admitted it was a computing error that somehow managed to slip through a third party auditor.

Rather than charging the usual $0.09 per kilowatt hour (kWh), Harriger had been billed a whopping 100,000 cents ($1,000) per kwh?..More

Woman Slammed With $1.3 Million Electric Bill

Kristin Harriger lives on a budget, typically setting aside about $100 for her monthly electric bill. This month, in what she thought at first was a joke, she opened her electric bill to a stunning $1,381,783.92 balance.

"I opened it. I read it. Then just went, ?Oh, my gosh. That?s a lot of money?," Harriger told the Abilene Reporter News. The Texas native texted pictures of the bill around to friends, and called her utility company ? Potentia Energy ? to have a new bill sent to her with the right balance.

According to Business Insider, Potentia miscalculated her bill by epic proportions. Its normal rate is $0.09 per kilowatt hour, but they charged her $1,000 per kwh. At most, according to The Public Utility Commission of Texas website PowerToChoose.org, the highest rate a resident of Abilene could expect to pay is $0.12 per kwh?.More

Actually makes you wonder how many smaller errors there are that are due to computer glitches that people just pay. Probably an awful lot, so make sure you take a careful look at your next bill.

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