Duke Energy

When I first heard Americans would be getting a stimulus I knew Duke Energy would want at least half. Today I opened my bill and I was correct. We experienced a power outage a few weeks back and I know there is no way I've used this much electricity but since they're a monopoly they can charge us whatever they want. Consumers struggle while we pay for Lynn Good to live her best life.

I moved home to my family property, I called to have my power connected and it was. A month a half later they try to cut my power off. Now we are 5 months in this I have a payment arrangement, where I agreed to pay 1850.00 even though I was not residing at the property for the last 13 years. I proved that by police reports, tax property receipts among a lot of other documents. My payment arrangement was met. I paid the first installment of 1008 dollars, I came home from work yesterday, no note in door no nothing. Warning or anything I have no power.

I had a great experience. Duke Energy is a great place and also a great company. Would recommend it to anyone. I have been through enough. I'm trying to get my bill switched out of my son name. He's on drugs and keep threaten to cut it off.

I didn't have any issues with Duke until I moved out of my past residence. They refused to shut off my gas and charged me for someone else using the gas and keep telling me it's my fault for not letting them in. Their words were the homeowner is responsible for letting them in. Well I wasn't the homeowner, I was only a tenant with no access to the box they needed to get to with a landlord that refused to answer my calls and messages to get the gas out of my name. So my landlord was getting free heat at my expense. It took months for them to finally get this taken care of, but they're still charging me for the months I wasn't living on the property. I was talked down to by customer service, basically being told to deal with it and pay the bill in full before I was hung up on.

I paid every month on the 15th, 9 days after my invoice date and after a year and a half of consistently paying the same day of the month, they turned my power off and charged me 465 as a deposit. Then they changed my due date to the 15th for me, but would not take off the deposit. I cannot wait 'til I have another electricity option!!!

I have lived in Winston Salem, NC for many years. Every year, there are needless outages. I can understand hurricanes, tornadoes, and snow. But, every year there are too many outages for fallen branches. We are charged line maintenance fees but apparently they are not done, or are not performed correctly. Duke uses "acts of nature" as a copout. Charging for services that are not actual done is criminal. 26 hour outage for fallen branches is unacceptable, especially when we pay for maintenance. Yet, we never see Duke trucks doing maintenance. Regardless after years of the same situations, still...power outages after some wind. This company is truly a Ripoff, unfortunately there is no alternative to them, even after the poisoning of our waterways fiasco...which we also had to pay for.

After murdering scores of innocent trees in our neighborhood 2 years ago, now they are further persecuting us by wanting to do "brush control" (cutting down shrubbery next to a creek next to our yard). Duke Energy is an eco-terrorism company. We lost power last week for almost 6 hours because of winds. Yet they have cut down thousands of trees around here where, if all trees had fallen down, none would have ever touched any wire. They harm the environment and charge us to do it. They kill God's creation because they can.

I was watching local TV news after a half of day on the phone with the customer service. I know everyone bill is high but talking to customer service asking to check about my meter may be off "Our meters are checked daily and they're never wrong." I asked if the price was increased. Her response, "Not in North Carolina yet!!!" First there was a charge to do this but forget it. Almighty Duke is the only game in town. I'm too old and too poor to change over to burning wood and clothing to keep warm.

My air condition when out in the hot summer months. Had to replace my dual package outside unit. Added a heat strip. I was able to get a new unit installed for 3400.00. It's a lot of money for someone on SSI. Get the permit and sent in all the paperwork for a 150.00 rebate. They come back to me saying only a SEER 15 NOT a SEER 14 would receive a rebate. The SEER 14 for only for a multi unit not a SFR. This does not make sense. I wish I was off the grid with Solar Power. Duke is averaging 220.00 a month for electric on a 1400 square ft house.

I had already turned on autopay with credit cards and cable supplier. Duke was the last added for a bill on December 2nd. Having carefully checked on when payment would be taken I felt reasonably confident it would work. Double checked this morning having returned from west coast to find a red warning notice on the account. The system had totally failed. This is the first late payment I have had in 30 years. Cannot trust Duke to do this competently.