re: Couple shuts off electricity, uses 0 Kw...gets $115 bill from Entergy

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A quick search and Entergy CEO is making 15 million, their upper management 3+ million a year, they have multiple corporate jets,

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None of the passed on fees we are talking about fund those though.

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Mingo Was His NameO

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Found the Entergy employee.

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You should read more kiddo.

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When you grow up and are paying your own bills this will make more sense.

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Took more than the 3 posts I predicted, but we made it

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None of the passed on fees we are talking about fund those though.

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I would love you to prove that, hell, I would just take a detailed breakdown of every fee Entergy charges and where that revenue gets directed to within the company for transparency purposes.

You can do a lot of things with accounting, pricing, and moving money around to fund indirect expenses, again, healthcare is a masterclass at this. Especially if the oversight governing and auditing you is not that strong.

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do the minimum required (maybe), yet keep begging for more funds.

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Yep, until the Feds spring for better infrastructure, these monopolies aint doing shite.

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It's really simple, if they offered to upgrade the system for $50/month for the next 10 years would you accept?

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I'd take this deal if had some other provider that I thought would get things done. But I don't trust Entergy for that. I'd expect buried lines, upgraded hardware, and a grid that can be repaired easily. That's just not something Entergy can be trusted with.

They'd upgrade a few thousand feet of lines in New Orleans and call it a day. The rest of their customers would still be fricked because they made the mistake of trusting Entergy. And if they ask the taxpayers to upgrade their network, then I think a variety of other energy providers should be allowed to operate there as the tenant provider and we slowly kick Entergy the frick out as a state.

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a fee-fi-fo-fum fee," said Michael Trahan

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I've been at that level of exasperation before

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Not if you are a regulated utility.

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Just one example

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When something goes wrong with a product or service that you bought, you might want a refund. But did you know that your utilities don’t have to give you a refund when the Ohio Supreme Court finds that charges you paid to a utility were improperly allowed by the PUCO? That’s right, an obscure 1950’s Court precedent combined with a lack of action by the PUCO is allowing utilities to keep your payments for improper charges.

The Ohio Supreme Court has said that utilities do not have to refund improper charges to consumers unless the PUCO makes the utility’s charges refundable or the Ohio legislature changes the law. And guess what, utilities lobby against making charges refundable or changing the law.

You lose every which way. How much have you lost, you ask? Just since 2009, Ohio electric consumers have been denied $1.5 billion in refunds that utilities were allowed to keep even though the Supreme Court found the utility charges to be improper.

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LINK

Curious in your mind what might be allowing the CEO to pay for trips to Vail on a corporate jet with his family during Hurricane Ida.

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"They've got no skin in the game," Campbell said. "I'm sick of the free ride they're getting."

Though current law appears to allow Entergy to recoup all of its repair costs from their 1.1 million Louisiana ratepayers, commissioners noted the company issued $3 billion in dividends to stockholders during the past two years and gave Denault a $1 million raise.

"I think Entergy's shareholders benefit immensely from Entergy's business model in Louisiana, but I do not think Entergy's customers see those same benefits," said Commissioner Craig Greene, R-Baton Rouge, in a statement. "While Entergy's stock price has risen, dividends are increasing and executives are flying in private jets, Louisiana's reliability scores are last in the nation and Louisiana customers are paying higher bills."

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I think the term some should familiarize themselves with is rent-seeking behavior.
$2,500,000 annually in lobbying expenses

It's almost like Entergy is investing in lobbying that is resulting in near 0 liability contracts with the state, charging higher fees, producing bottom of the country results in terms of reliability, and using the excess to pay off their shareholders and build corporate fleets for their high paid CEO's off the back of those higher customer prices.

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When I was in college during 2010-2013… was only like $50 haha.

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So you’re telling me prices were lower a decade ago?

Uncanny

Averaging 250 a month for me. I’ve called them a few times to bitch about it. Does nothing. The bill smoothing thing is stupid. Screwed regardless.

And the new improved meters that were installed. Day by day usage is accessible. I think the meters are made by Dominion