National Grid

I had my gas disconnected on Tuesday April 30, 2019. I went to the service center and got my service to be reinstated they said they will give me a 24 hour window. I said ok. It is now over 24 hours and they still say that they will have someone come to reconnect my service. During the evening a technician called while I was running an errand, he said he will be there by 9:40 and he never showed up. I called the emergency line and the representative told me he should be there shortly. After two hours he still did not show. Apparently he said I was not there. He basically lied and did not even leave a tag to say he was here.

After four decades of experience dealing with National Grid and its predecessor Niagara Mohawk, the company - with few exceptions - remains a consumer nightmare. It has little if any institutional memory when the same services at the same address are involved, its website, while there have been modest improvements, is among the worst on the net. Many of its frontline reps are poorly trained, poorly spoken and unable to provide a minimum of customer service laced with courtesy. There are, of course, always exceptions. It's one big stuffed element with outdated and outmoded consumer services. If it were a private, unregulated concern, it would have gone the way of the buggy whip long ago.

So I will be the first to admit my mistake of letting my bills go unpaid (80+ yrs old recently deceased husband who paid bills). Turned off last Friday with no written notice. Have called no EXAGGERATING 9 times! Their system for accounts that are past due is emailing or faxing a payment agreement to be signed and sent back and then they will dispatched someone to turn back on maybe. It is 2 pm on Monday and I have yet to receive any email. Every time I call they tell me I am not the only one and this is a very busy season for them and I will eventually receive the email. Are you KIDDING? I have no heat, hot water or cooking gas. I live alone and have no help. I have not had a meal or taken a shower since Thursday night!!!! What is the problem with this company and their processes!!!! No one will help and with the exception of one young lady Michelle everyone else is nasty and rude. One even hung up on me. WHAT DO I DO????

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BEFORE moving to New York, check out the cost of gas and electricity. IT COULD BE MORE THAN YOUR RENT. I live alone in an apartment in my triplex that I own. My experience with National Grid over the last ten years has been questionable. I didn't pursue the argument, but now I must. My bill went from 357.00 to 500.00 in a month. I am fastidiously frugal with heat and electricity. My thermostat is at 63, I am always cold, and leave the lights off all day. This company has to be investigated.

National Grid in the capital region Of NYS is out of control. They send me a bill every several days for different amounts and the charge each month seems to double, every time I make a payment I get a shutoff notice 4-5 days later for an outstanding balance that magically appeared. NYS needs to conduct an investigation on this company ASAP, they've run out all the other companies and they're taking full advantage of their customers. When you are charged $600+ a month for electricity and have no choice but to pay because it's a necessity and there's no other companies, That's called extortion.

This is the worst website. After account numbers and access codes that don't work with each other it is impossible to login. I got help from their associates in the past who were also confused by their website. Now I have paperless billing and have no idea how to access my account. When I looked for old emails to find a link, I was able to log on on an entirely different screen, but when I got in it was for an address I lived at 2 years ago. I can't even currently tell you if I have been paying someone else's electricity. Their email links to free products like thermostats never work. Without a good website transparency is gone. Worst experiences ever calling them... Each time I have to call them it's like an hour of my day and they are closed on weekends.

Arranged an appointment in response to a letter to call for gas meter change. Given an "8-4" time slot after a long wait on hold. No one showed or called. After another call and long wait, told it had been re-scheduled and cancelled again because of weather. Third attempt, again scheduled for 8-4. On the date, called for a time prediction, told to call customer service, waited over 10 minutes, got electric division, transferred and waited again, got a woman who could not give me any information at all. When I said that was poor customer service, she hung up on me! Lousy customer service.

I recently moved, and the gas to my new apartment had been shut off. I called National Grid to set up a new account, and they said they couldn’t come over until Thursday. That’s a long time to not be able to cook, but it’s manageable. Then they said I’d have to be available from 8am to 12am midnight. (Which— ?!?!!!??) Well, I know this is crazy, but I have a job, so I can’t do that. We scheduled them to come on Saturday.

I try to make sure that all of my bills are paid on time and pay as much as I am able to for them. I despise National Grid’s opération in New York State. It seems like every year in January or February, National Grid seeks to shut my power off. I just paid my bill for January and I paid ahead for February’s and I had still received a shut off notice in my mail even in the midst of -20 degree temperatures.

My heat was BROKEN. The thermostat went down to 57 degrees! Then we went on vacation for a week and set the thermostat to 60. And my bill is the highest it’s ever been. Can you say FRAUD? The company seems to arbitrarily sending a number. Nothing to do with usage. Time for an investigation of the company! If I had ANY other choice in heating companies I’d leave in a heartbeat!

I started in the LICAP Program over 3 years ago with no end date. The program is suppose to match what National Grid gives you as payment which was $68 a month. So my payments were made on time every month and I started to pay extra because I noticed my bill was rising. So, in Nov of 2018 someone from National Grid Collections called and left a message stating I needed to pay my back bill of over $1700. I called back and asked them what are they talking about, I've been paying by and I'm in the LICAP Program. The rep was confused and didn't know why anyone was calling me.

I called last August to see if I could work out a payment plan and hopefully get on the AMP program. Over the course of 4-5 months, I have sent them my info at least 4 times. Not once did I receive a call from them. Every time I called they requested my info and I sent it. Now they have sent me to a collection agency. I called today Jan 9, 2019, and the girl on the line said that I need to apply for reduced services. I told her that I have sent my info 4 times. I then asked her to speak to a supervisor. That was around 4 PM. It is now 5:03 and I am still on hold listening to the same friggin music. I think they close at 5. They got us by the balls and know it.

I don't understand why this company has not been investigated. I moved to a 3 bedroom home unfortunately all electric. I thought the bill was high in the summer at $170 but it went up to $300 then $600 then $900 in the winter per month! And my house was freezing because I set the heat at 60 degrees. My teenage son was living here so he would blast the heat with the window open in his room & take long hot showers so I assumed it was that. When I called to set up payment arrangements they said that my bill was not past due so they could not set them up???

Possibly the worst utility provider I've ever had to work with. Mind you, we rarely have any alternatives but this was beyond bad. So a bit of context, I work in energy markets and am well aware of how things work, electricity creeps higher in the wintertime due to increased HDD (Heating degree days). Meaning that when the temperature drops it costs more to heat your home, and of all of the heating alternatives electricity is by far the most expensive. I've also lived in just over 6 different states and have routinely dealt with their customer service departments.

I live alone in a 900 sq ft home with all new electric. New top of the line on demand heating system. A new roof. New insulation. New windows... Then a new meter... And lo and behold they gotcha!!! The bills start rolling in from $40/50 summertime to $180/$200. From $120/200 winter time to $300/$500. I spoke with some neighbors and it's just so ridiculous. NOT ONE OUNCE OF CONCERN or KINDNESS!!! The worst company EVER!!! Nothing we can do. I can't believe this is not being looked into. The government obviously gets a piece of our money but come on!!! How is one company robbing consumers with no one looking into this??? There has to be some way to stop it... Besides the obvious going off grid!

National Grid told me I had to send in my roommate's picture ID and picture of a debit card. 2 proofs of identification and they want those faxed. They never mention anything about emailing it in which would have been quicker now. Before I sent the fax about a week previous I called them and a voice recording said it was some sort of emergency was the reason why their office was shut down. It was not a holiday, all utilities are open Monday through Friday except this place. Now when I called them back today 10 days after I've tried to get gas turned on and they told me the fax came through too dark their fault of course. It's Friday, now I have to wait till Monday to call them back. These people are grossly incompetent, if you can get gas service from someone else, do it.

I spent over 2 hours of time over two days to try to understand why they didn’t cancel my service when I moved and established a new account 6 weeks ago. The phone IVR system is pitiful. I had to call in numerous times as after I went through the process of entering my account number the system would disconnect me. The first time that I actually reached someone, I was told that the systems were down and that I should call back in 20 minutes. After 30 minutes I called back and the IVR didn’t even answer the call, on multiple attempts. 3 days later, I experienced similar problems with being disconnected. When I did reach someone I was told that he could not help me and would transfer me to the right group and then I was disconnected again.

My account was under my boyfriend's name and when we broke up he closed the account and after paying all the bills I applied for a new account via phone. The woman told me to send my ID to an email address she sent me. After sending the ID I got declined because I did not include the address which they never mentioned. Then I applied including the address and declined again because I didnt include a second ID WHICH THEY NEVER MENTIONED! And they just shut off my gas and heat and I am freezing! I call them and now they are telling me it will take about 2 weeks for someone to turn it on. This is ridiculous that there are no other options for heat and gas and National Grid does not care about inconvenience.

They shut my power down without any notice, in the middle of winter, because I didn't pay my Bills for 2 months. They are not human, bunch of savages run the company. My child became really sick. When I called them and paid the amount due, they said they couldn't restore until 24 hours. My whole family catch cold because of a 200 bill and they shut my power without any notice. Shame on you!

All the gas services in my house stopped working so I called National Grid on Tuesday Oct. 30 at 9:32 am. After you go through their myriad number options I finally asked for customer service. I explained what the problem was, their service rep put me on hold to talk to the dispatcher to get someone to come out to my house. When the rep came back she said "the reason there is no gas in your house is because we are doing work in the area and we may have cut the gas to your house. Didn’t you get the notice on your door?". I did not and even if they were, why would they cut my service overnight? It’s 40 degrees here in NY, do you know how cold it is in my house?

Their electrical service is unreliable and the customer service is worse. Electric will go totally go out, or brown out when the weather conditions are sunny with no high winds. An outage is never handled in a timely matter. Yesterday around 1:30 pm I reported flickering lights to no electric, back to electric then back to issues. Around 5pm The lineman checked my pole to discover our house power had very low voltage. Which at that time the lights seem to be normal. He told me the transformer across the road was bad and advised me to shut the electric off so it does not burn up our appliances.

I moved within Massachusetts. I terminated in one address and started service in another. They said while terminating they can't do Auto pay for my last bill. They said they'd send it to my new address the last bill. They never sent it. Finally a collection agency calls me and says "we sent several mails". It turned out they also sent it to my old address. Finally the collection agency tells me "National Grid wants us to report this to credit bureau". This is ** awful. For their mistake my credit history is **.

I typically try to remain understanding of a company’s perspective on things, especially a company who may receive a lot of negativity from their customers. I’m trying my hardest to maintain that perspective but it’s become very difficult with National Grid at the moment. My electricity was shut off yesterday around noon due to nonpayment. I am aware of the consequences that ultimately come with not paying your bills so I’m not disputing that. My issue is that my last billing statement said nothing about termination. I never received a notice in the mail. I’ve never received a phone call.

I've moved twice in NYC with National Grid being my gas service provider and I've had numerous problems. Their website is straight from 1996. Their direct pay system seems intentionally convoluted and often straight up doesn't work at all so you have to go through whatever side deal they have going on with Western Union (extra fee of course!) The customer service is nightmarish and unhelpful. Once you navigate the labyrinth of automated computer customer service reps you will undoubtedly be directed to the wrong person who will put you on hold for 20 minutes before transferring you to another wrong department who will again put you on hold again.

I called them twice. First time they JUST transferred me twice and they told me to provide my gas number or something or they couldn't help me, which made sense. I got the number, called them again the next day. I got transferred FOUR ** TIMES with spending 2 ** HOURS and they STILL trying to transfer me. I asked them why am I keep transferred they go "I just can't help you". You know what? Kiss my ** and go ** yourself.

We moved on August 1. We received a confirmation email regarding electric transfer of service, but nothing on gas. We called and they told us we were all set. Now, mid-September, we contact them again: "Where is our bill?" Oh, we never transferred services! Both utilities are still in the landlord's name! This company and its customer service reps are nothing but a joke!

Where to begin? 1. They "forgot" to close out my old electrical account, then tried to bill me for someone else's power. I found out they combined my old & new accounts & old & new addresses so everything was tangled up. When I called to complain their employees would either hang up, tell me to call back, or send me to disconnected numbers.

Their customer service is what you would expect from a monopoly. They have no invested interest in better performance since we have no viable options for alternative service. I have been trying to talk to customer service for 11 minutes and am still being told that is still more than 10 minutes (been told that for 8 minutes). I had to go through 3 different menu's to get to the point where I have to wait endlessly to talk to someone to just ask a simple question. This is outrageous.

National Grid employee cut the service to a restaurant, but due to employee mistake they cut service to our restaurant as well. Call already to report the problem 10 hours ago, nobody came to fix it, in the meanwhile business is close and employees have to be sent home. People at National Grid do not care, hope this company disappears, and a good company take it over. I really wish this is not a monopoly and we can choose to change to another company, really bad service from National Grid.!!?