Power consumption. Invoices for settling high: what to do to avoid problems
There are some instances of users who have been delivered of the invoices relating to electric utilities, bearing of objections quite high and abnormal. Figures that roam frequently also around five or six thousand euro.
Such invoices involving exposure to very costly for users, since in most cases they are invoices adjustment. Bills within which, the single seller recalculates the consumption of a specific user, since for some time, or even for years, it has not been able to bill taking into account the actual consumption. In the absence of reliable data, however, the seller issues the invoice, but the consumption figures indicated are "estimates," or refer to a flat-rate calculation determined based on the average consumption of each user. Invoices for settling delivered to many users reconstruct even consumption made from 2007 to 2011.
The Authority for Electricity and Gas established the obligation to make the meter reading at least once a year, payable by the companies. However in practice this does not always happen. The companies that operate in the free market, but also those who work in the protected market, they are not aware of a direct data necessary for billing the balance. The link between businesses and consumers is the cd. Distributor which it must disclose the actual first user consumption, failing companies make, so estimated.
For the client who is the holder of a supply contract with conditions set by the Authority for Electricity and Gas (then in the protected market ed), Resolution no. 229/01, Article 10 recognizes the possibility of obtaining an installment in the best conditions. The amount generated by the adjustment should be spread not only in fact, if the user requests it, but the number of installments should be at least the number of invoices for payment received after the last bill of adjustment. Moreover, the number of installments shall not be less than two.
Here is a practical example. Let us assume that the user has received the final invoice to adjustment in December 2008, and from that moment on, in the absence of a known relative to consumption, its turnover in a vendor has estimated up to the balance, which generated the amounts very costly for the user. Invoices sent in advance in that time shall form the basis for the installment plan. While the December 2008 to November 2011 for example they were delivered eight down payment, then the sum will be paid in installments in eight equal installments.
Given the frequency with which such cases occur, it is certain the difficulty of the distributor responsible for the area in making the meter readings. This happens despite the current models allow to detect the consumption even at a distance. Situations that too often passed on users. To help overcome these problems, it is recommended that consumers in their capacity as holders of power consumers are mindful of their consumption, often performing the reading of their meter and transmitting data from your seller, so as to enable it to invoice balance.
10/02/2012
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Source:
Italian version of CercaGeometra.it