Billing Problems and Complaints (525 reviews)
Reliant to Constellation
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I was very happy with the transfer experience overall. I went from Reliant, which was billing me at almost $.18/kWh to a tiered rate system with Constellation. In the two months between March & April, when I have been on the new plan, I am already seeing electric bills that are half compared to last year at this time. My only complaint so far is that I setup automatic draft billing, and it did not work. At the time of this review I have not gone back to see if the error was on my part or Constellations.
I have Rated Customer Service a 3 only because I have not dealt with them yet. ”
May 14th, 2019
Renewal distress
“ I have been with Star Tex energy for two years., It is now time to renw and they went up on the rate extremely high. i am going to have to search for a new energy provider which i have found several on a 12 month plan that are $.03 cheaper per KWH. Their billing is good and easy and I had no problkem, justs the new rate schedule. ”
May 30th, 2018
Awesome Utilities
“ I enjoy paying the same price every month but I hate that my billing cycle ends on the 27th of the month and there is no grace period. I would prefer a billing cycle that ends within the 1st ten days of the month. And frontier would not change it. Otherwise they are a 5 star company. ”
April 2nd, 2017
Good experience over Summer 2014. No issues seen like in the other ratings.
“ My Summer Energy contract was expiring on 6/8/2014, and my rates were jumping way up so I hunted for the cheapest company I could find (for <1000 KWH) that didn't have totally horrible reviews, and I settled on the GME month to month plan at 8.4 cents. I have been watching the rate carefully each month, and it has never increased to-date, and even dropped down to 8.23 cents this month. I use <1000 every month so I end up paying more per KWH (~9.1 cents) with the base charge included, but I looked today (10/7/14) and it's still the best rate I could find for <1000 KWH. I had no issues other than them charging me the $6.95 fee for the last 3 days of the previous "ONCOR Month" (I switched over to GME 3 days before ONCOR read the meter). When I complained, and after explaining for 30 minutes WHY this was a problem like 5 different times, the CSR finally agreed that, yes, it was dumb to charge me a full month's base charge for 3 days of service, and said he would make a note to credit the amount back to my account the next month, but it never happened. I use automated billing and have had no hassles. I did request the $100 rebate after 90 days that I was told about when I signed up, but I have heard nothing back yet. It says 6 to 8 weeks, though, and I submitted my request on 9/10. Maybe my good-ish experience is rare, or maybe only the people who have issues put their reviews here (vs. many more that don't). :-) ”
October 7th, 2014
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