3 months of "free" electricity at the farm

GeneMO · Dec 9, 2013

We got our statement from our Rural Electric COOP. My capital credit just about pays for the next three months up at the farm.

Bet we dont get a refund from Ameran here in the burbs.

But I do realize they need to make money, so I aint complaining.

Gene

BIG RUH · Dec 9, 2013

Gene, I agree that Ameren needs to make money, but
their charges and ridiculous. They wanted $1700 to
run a line from my transformer to my shed, 100 feet
total. Rural electric company did it for my next
door neighbor for $200. I'm the last one on the
line and the rural elcectric won't cross into
Ameren's territory

W_B · Dec 9, 2013

After a storm took down the overhead line to my well pump and shed (about 60') and the garage (about 10'), using MY downed wire again, an electrician charged $850. Property insurance carrier paid it as part of a bigger claim (tree on the house and smashed chimney). Would have hated to pay that one out of pocket.

Dick2 · Dec 9, 2013

Friend bought a new double-wide manufactured house ahd had utilities hooked up. Every month he got a bill from the electric company for $16, which was about 1/10 of the neighbor's electric bill.

He called the power company and told them that they had a defective meter. They told him that there would be a $175 charge for them to check the meter! He told them to just forget it and kept on paying $16 a month, no matter how much electricity he used.

504 · Dec 9, 2013

Their charge to run power down the pole that was already there was $500.00 twenty years ago, and I paid for the wire and meter base.
I built a new house on REC ten years ago, and they set the pole,ran the wire and furnished the meter base and 200amp shut off--- no cost. (We are up to a $25.00 deposit for renters)

GeneMO · Dec 10, 2013

I am not up at the farm much, so I pay an "availability charge" of $25. With the electricity I use my total bill is around $35 a month, but some of that is taxes.

I have had nothing but great experiences with the REA.

Gene

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