JEA Reviews

Jacksonville, FL

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JEA provides electric, water and sewer services in Jacksonville, Florida. A community-owned utility operating since 1968, it offers a range of energy and water conservation programs, renewable energy initiatives and infrastructure maintenance.

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    Customer ServiceStaff

    Reviewed Sept. 28, 2024

    Our power did not go out with the storm, but after everything is over @ 6pm the next evening our power goes out? Systemic issues prevented us from even being able to report our outage via phone or internet. It is now midnight and JEA cannot even give us an ETA?? Typical JEA - def ZERO sense of urgency and ZERO preparedness. Spoke with a live person finally just to get a blanket response. Elderly and disabled people up and down our street who need power to be able to function - so sad. Not to mention how unsafe it is to have no power in the middle of the night!!?! It NEVER improves from year to year - only gets worse.

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    Reviewed Sept. 27, 2024

    There are two words that describe JEA. Hot garbage. They do not care about their customers. I used to be a big-time supporter of them and despite what people said I always stated they treating me with respect. With the events of the storm and their very Unprofessional and uncaring attitude of even giving a simple ETA as to when power will be restored it shows they do not care. But what do they care, they hold them monopoly here.

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    Customer Service

    Reviewed Sept. 27, 2024

    Power's been out all day after a storm and not only can you not get a human being on the phone, their voicemail says office is closed even though it's supposed to be open. Customer service is terrible but then again it doesn't have to be good when there's no competition.

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    Reviewed Sept. 27, 2024

    With current storm Helene it brought very little damage to anywhere in Duval county...yet thousands are without power due to JEA doing no maintenance or upgrades anywhere...obviously as a part of Duval county government...THEY SUCK. JEA should be disbanded...BRING IN FPL!!!!

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    Reviewed Sept. 27, 2024

    I really wish there was another energy company to utilize in Jacksonville, literally one of the worst energy companies I've ever put up with, and as a veteran I have traveled to a lot of different places. Horrible that they have a contract where they are the only ones allowed to power Jacksonville. A real nightmare, not to mention personal problems with certain workers coming onto my property to look at a former tenant's bicycles with obvious I'll intent.

    In the past a third party company had paid 3 months in advanced to help me out as a veteran in the middle of a crisis. I ended up leaving my residence early, and had a $125 credit thanks to the donation for a veteran in need. I had only asked for one month, and they had given me a huge blessing, and an extra credit that I desperately needed. After speaking with JEA I was informed the $125 credit would be given to me at the end of the contract. At the end I only received a $25 credit. That was a terrible experience, and I truly felt I had been deceived.

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    Price

    Reviewed Aug. 31, 2024

    Someone please find a way to get a petition going to fully remove JEA, giving us access to public business that provide electric services instead of it being city owned, city is scamming the living crap out of their community using JEA as a milking device, JEA needs to be either disband or sued for the actual damage it's causing to residents of Jacksonville with the mafia behavior it possesses, stealing money from its residents but at as well as Jacksonville's Major for knowledgably knowing that compare to anywhere else in USA,.

    They are illegally charging almost x2 higher than any other state, just because it's privately owned and operated by city of Jax so they feel entitled to charge whatever they feel like it, whenever they feel like it without any proper documentation for the undisclosed fees whenever they are extra money hungry just because they know residents don't have access to any competition as it's automatically being blocked by Jacksonville, making everyone consistently only dependable on JEA which is a complete SCAM.

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    Reviewed Aug. 29, 2024

    Shout out to JEA. Who give no cares in the world about any of their customers. I just want to say to the biggest scam company in Duval, I hope you all can feed your families, have laughs at the table with your lights on, be able to afford health insurance, dental, rent, car and most of all, food. We’ll be taking from food and rent and car this month to pay the scammers of JEA. Have fun eating lunch today and enjoy every bit, and think of the others you spit on knowing they’ll be going to bed hungry. Have a horrendous rest of your year. Sincerely a paying human being.

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    Reviewed Aug. 20, 2024

    My water/sewer meter was broken which caused the meter to give estimates of my utility usage. My bill is $503.57. It estimated my water/sewer usage as 15,000 gallons. I don’t have a pool so that information of usage is incorrect. While on a call with JEA representative, they set an Appt for an analyst to come out. July 30, 2024, a JEA water analyst came to my home and replaced the meter. He stated,” No leaked indicated, meter was being estimated, causing customer to be in higher tier. Account needs to be adjusted.” I have talked to several JEA representatives and each one contradicted the other about my bill. I paid $314.50 of $503.57 which left a balance of 189.07.

    They never credited the bill, instead re-billed me for June-July and left the bal above. I had paid for 4000 gal of water & 4000 gal of sewer for June-July cycle. So, why would I be re-billed for it? This is highway robbery! No one could tell me what amount I should pay until this issue was resolved. In turn, they charged me a late fee and changed the due date to the end of the month. My bill is usually due on the 6th-8th of each month but never at the end. If my bill was being estimated, how would they know the accurate usage? So now, I received a notice of SERVICE DISRUPTION if payment of $533.45 isn’t received by 8/26. This can’t be legal business practices! JEA added a credit of $89.31 to July-August bill which didn’t make a difference because they didn’t remove the $189.07.

    I have made several attempts to contact JEA waiting on hold 30 mins one call, 25 minutes another call and no one picked up. I know they have caller ID and ignored my calls. I’m disabled and this is causing emotional distress. I feel like I’m being charged for their faulty equipment. JEA inaccurately calculated my bill and I have to pay for their mistakes. I have all my paper bills but none of them match the digital copies online which mean they are changing info to fit their narrative. I’m so frustrated with this situation because they are defrauding customers. Every review I have read about JEA on the BBB has been negative. I would be one of the first to vote JEA out if they ever put it on a ballot!

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    PricePunctuality & Speed

    Reviewed Aug. 16, 2024

    I am beyond frustrated with JEA's unfair treatment of customers, particularly those who are already struggling. After losing my job, I had a few months where I couldn't pay my bills on time due to no income. As a single mom of three, I worked hard to get back on my feet, and just when I thought I was making progress, JEA slapped me with a $550 "Risky Customer" deposit.

    On top of this deposit, they've increased the usage cost, making my monthly bill over $1,000! I live in a tiny house, under 1,300 square feet, so these charges make absolutely no sense. How is anyone supposed to get back on their feet and NOT be a "risky customer" when faced with these outrageous charges? I received this bill today, with a due date of 08/30/24. How is this even legal? I’m a single mom of three kids, and I have no idea how I’m going to manage this. JEA needs to seriously reconsider how they treat their customers, especially those who are doing their best to recover from financial hardships. This is not just unfair—it’s heartless.

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    Customer Service

    Reviewed July 4, 2024

    JEA sent me an email stating; "You have a credit of $640.00 to your JEA ACCOUNT." I was relieved to know that a credit was attached to my account. Let me remind you of something; they sent this email on the day it was due. I paid it prior to getting an email. Then the next morning I get another email saying, "Oh sorry that message was sent in error. You don't have any credit." If I had spent that money on something else. I would have been in trouble. Nowhere in the world do you give something to someone, and then say sorry. It's gone. You lost it. You can't have it back. You don't go out to eat, get served something that wasn't yours, leave with it, and then get a call saying you have to come back and pay for it. IT'S GONE!!!! This is classified as negligence. You can sue for this. Be better. This is why you should graduate HIGH SCHOOL...

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    Customer ServiceInstallation & SetupPriceStaff

    Reviewed June 17, 2024

    I recently purchased a house with a 374 sq ft cottage on a separate lot. The house and guest cottage each have their own utilities. I called JEA to have the power and water turned on to both houses, and there way no problem with the main house. The power for the cottage had a problem where the lights were dim. And it didn't have proper voltage. I called JEA and told them that I wasn't getting the correct voltage to the meter. I could visibly see that the wires coming to the cottage had been spliced and were 2 different sizes. They made me call an electrician who told them the same thing I did and they finally came and changed their wire to my house. The water for the cottage never got turned on so I looked in the meter box and there wasn't one. I had been billed for the cut on and was being charged for water and sewer while there wasn't even a meter there.

    About a week later, they came and installed the meter, then I get a water and sewer bill for $70 with no usage not including the cut on fee. When I called about it, they told me it was because I had requested a 1 inch meter and they cost more. I told them that the line to my 374 sq ft cottage was 3/4 and why would they use a 1 inch meter. They said it was because I requested it and it will be $500 to change it to a 3/4 which would lower my basic w&s bill by 50%. I never requested it and they can't show me where I did, but they won't budge off of the $500. The linemen and repair guys are great but I would give the crs's and supervisors a zero if I could. We spoke to a supervisor and asked her to show us where we had requested the 1" meter. She said she couldn't find it,"But somebody had requested it".

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    Reviewed April 18, 2024

    JEA is a very fraudulent company. They have been billing huge amounts for electricity and water even when residents are out of town. There is absolutely no usage or intensely reduces like only 5% of the normal usage yet the bill was almost exact and at times even more than when residents were in town and living in the house. A 40 days out of town was exactly the same as 40 Days in town and invincible in the house. Even the Ecobee thermostat sends an email with the low usage of electricity the hill is exactly the same as the last month. I think a group of attorneys should look into these fraudulent billings and go after JEA with a class action lawsuit.

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    Reviewed March 4, 2024

    They overcredited my account for a mistake they made then demanded I pay it back or they'd cut off my electric. It's their mistake. Not mine. Their JEA EZ-PAY messed up the payment. They need to be investigated and fined for this.

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    Reviewed Jan. 24, 2024

    When I first bought this home 23 years ago I was paying $100 a month with three other people living with me. Now by myself, I’m paying nearly $400 a month. JEA seems to be monopolizing and taking advantage of people during a time when it’s hard to even afford rent and mortgage for most.

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    Reviewed Oct. 31, 2023

    JEA is horrible company overall. Rates are horrible. They do not assist people with making arrangments, at least not decent arrangments, then they send a disconnection notice the same day that your service is to be disconnected!!! How is that fair!!!! The worst company ever, but they don't care because it's the only option people of Jacksonville have to have electric service, which is also horrible.

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    Customer ServicePrice

    Reviewed Sept. 27, 2023

    JEA meter stopped working and the electricity usage was not being properly read. The technician attempted to switch to different meters. However, the problem continued. JEA asked me to call in electrician and fix the wiring in the house, they assume that was the possible cost of the meter challenges. I paid for an electrician to fix anything that needed to be fixed, and at that time JEA informed me that everything was up and running correctly. Several months later I’m being told that, I owe a balance of an estimated usage of electricity JEA estimate comes to close to $600, and the company decided to build it all at once without any warning. I called to complain, and they told me that I cannot appeal how they arrive to the calculation, nor can I dispute their estimates. Essentially, I’m stuck paying an additional almost $600 of unexpected charges this month.

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    Customer ServiceInstallation & Setup

    Reviewed Sept. 26, 2023

    I have been trying to install water and electricity in my new home in Julington Lakes and I can't complete the process online due to some issues using two last names (the system doesn't accept it) and can't recognize my social security number which I have since I was born and obviously use it all the time. They request you to call but they plain and simple unreachable. I have been trying to contact them for 4 days + now and they just don't pick up. I am moving to my new home from South Florida in 6 days and I have no electricity or water. Please this is an urgent matter. Horrible.

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    Customer Service

    Reviewed Sept. 20, 2023

    I’ve lived in New York City, Princeton, London, Amsterdam, West Palm Beach and Jacksonville; JEA is the most corrupt enterprise I’ve ever dealt with. They once told me I used 55,000 gallons of water in one month - I’ve been a customer for 14 years and the most water I’ve ever used is 8,000 gallons. I filled a complaint with the State Attorney General. My monthly bill went from $400 in July to $1400 in August. I have auto pay set up, but I don’t have $1400 sitting in my checking account so their egregious charge was rejected. No phone call. No text message. No reaching out. Just shut my power off.

    I paid online and instantly restored power, but not a single notification from them. I’m in the Coast Guard and currently at sea and had to restore power from offshore. Absolutely disgraceful company. My next home will be in FPL territory - I never thought I’d choose a house based off the utility service provider, but JEA is that corrupt that I can’t fathom living in their service area again.

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    Customer Service

    Reviewed Sept. 7, 2023

    I reserved services for a unit that I ended up not getting from 04/01- 04/04. Canceled this service and I'm having problems with the amount of $170 being returned out of $200, which my letter states is due to me, but I've gotten the runaround on when they will give it back. It's not a month later and I keep getting random letters of credit score and when I call different replies on when it'll be in the mail.. I just want my refunded amount to be returned back to me, I no longer live in Jacksonville.. The worst services ever seen and no one to report them too..

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    Reviewed March 13, 2023

    No company should have a monopoly over everything. This is the ONLY electric company we get to deal with and if we want electricity we have to pay them whatever they want - not what the electricity is worth - ONLY what this company wants. I wish that Ben Franklin never discovered electricity or I wish he got a patent on it so nobody could use it. During the middle of the COVID pandemic, they took the liberty of using my whole deposit money without my consent and paid my electric bill. They had no business doing that because I was retired and had nothing to do with no job or no paycheck during the pandemic.

    Now I am being charged really, really high rates and I'm literally living in the dark. I don't use my oven or stove. I don't use my dishwasher. I don't take showers or baths every day. I don't use my washer or dryer. If I decide to eat, I wash one dish a night. And I'm still being charged a very high bill. I have the lights out most every day and what lights I do use, there are 15w bulbs in them. I am also using night lights. I wouldn't want to work for this company because they shut electricity off when people don't pay their bills and they are responsible for killing people. I don't want that on my conscience when I die.

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    Customer ServicePunctuality & SpeedStaff

    Reviewed Dec. 30, 2022

    JEA has the worst billing department I have ever had to deal with. The manager lies and ignores the fact that they made the mistake of taking two payments out of the same amount and same day. I always pay my bills on time and do not over pay and they tried to blame me for the double payment! I only received one confirmation email and somehow I did that. They said they would refund the amount and I would get it in 6 days. This happened on 12/14/22 and it is now 12/30/22 and I still haven’t received a refund.

    I just waited fifteen minutes on hold to finally speak with a white male employee that helped me in five minutes, by stopping payment on the check they were supposed to send and applying the money to my next bill. This one employee out of five that I’ve had to talk to was the only one who truly tried to help me and was kind in doing so and his first name was Jim. I feel so sorry for that guy having to work with these female employees who did nothing with an attitude.

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    Price

    Reviewed Dec. 15, 2022

    JEA is horrible. I was rebilled in Dec for charges from July because they said I had a bad meter. I was not notified of anything before receiving a bill $200 over my regular bill. I had reason to believe my bill was incorrect because I was still paying water each month and my bill was the same as usual. This just means they are going up about 120 on my bill as well. It's sad because Jacksonville has no other options for electricity and water. How is this not price gouging. JEA is the worst!

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    Reviewed Sept. 23, 2022

    My meter was changed out July 28th. Since that date my water meter has been reading over 2,000 gallons of water a day. JEA will not reimburse me. I need help because I have paid $750 in 3 days. Please help me.

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    Reviewed Aug. 30, 2022

    My fuel charge is amt of electric. 901.70 that's freaking crazy. It's my whole damn pay check. Same kw as last yr but 300.00 more. Something has to help us. Why are the allowed to do this? What as consumers can we do?

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    Reviewed July 12, 2022

    Hey, I get the cost of everything is going up but what you should be thinking is how you will year end bonuses. So glib and business like. Every year, you post that and it's like putting salt in the wound.

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    Price

    Reviewed July 7, 2022

    My bill went from 100 to 150 a month to 255 a month in one year. This is getting out of hand. How can I afford this!! Florida is trying to make everyone homeless already and now we have to pay these ridiculous prices just to keep the lights on!!!

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    Reviewed June 25, 2022

    Jea is extremely expensive. My bill cost almost $100 more last year. I have watched it go up and up. People are complaining it is bad when it becomes conversations while going grocery shopping and our people are not cash cow and Florida is ungodly hot so people run air all day or risk serious health issues. Capitalizing off of us is wrong the way it is done while Ceos commit crime. Hiking our bills constantly. We need deregulation and competitive company access to free and discount solar panel in community to supplement cost for all. Jacksonville invest in good for people and not for these corporations. We can never recover from post pandemic with this American greed.

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    Reviewed June 10, 2022

    We are tired of having to pay fuel cost. We pay almost a 100 dollars a month in fuel cost on top of the light bill. This is really ridiculous. Jea needs to stop charging us fuel cost. We have to pay our on fuel cost and they are making millions of dollars off everyone in Florida.

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    Customer ServicePricePunctuality & Speed

    Reviewed April 13, 2022

    JEA came out to my home & took my meter Saturday without telling me. Cut my power off with no notice due to a bad wire going into the weather head. They told me this verbally, not even on paper. I had to write it down with a pen so I knew what to tell the Electrician. Turns out this work is very expensive. Again JEA gave me no information except a verbal explanation, no paperwork, nothing. Just said to call an Electrician to fix. It's not their problem. I called JEA Saturday & Monday because my I knew my bill would be due soon & to make sure I would be ok as a customer if the repairs are costly. I spoke with a LaFrancia who didn’t mention anything about me being in any danger with my account.

    Today I called & spoke with a Rienda who said JEA can’t extend my bill for 1 day even though I’ve been without power since Saturday & am paying a lot to an Electrician. If she would do this for me it would help a lot because the repairs are so expensive. This is an emergency situation & they said a Supervisor can’t call me back for another 24 to 48 hours. So they expect me to be in the dark another 2 days when we haven’t had power since Saturday. This company is a joke. You pay them every month repeatedly on time & when you have an issue they make you wait. Worst customer service ever. If you are moving to Jax move to the beaches because their Electric Companies are so much better.

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    Reviewed March 6, 2022

    The fact that this is our only poor overcharged ** option is absurd. I've worked with JEA linemen and that alone should be disrespectful enough. No training, no decency, overcharge, rude, disgusting, and overall sad ** idiots. Bills fluctuate for no reason, random charges. Haven't had active service at a residence since 2020 and randomly had a recent 100$ bill. Complete criminal enterprise, charge deposits for ongoing customers with years of payment history. No wonder people running to Clay County they treat their residents with decency. US veterans even get ** on by JEA, ** sad but funny because they will cry when we start dropping people in Jea uniforms.

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