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A $634.12 electric bill in February about five times higher than normal soured Forrest Lehman and his wife, Megan, on electric choice.
The bill was the result of a variable rate plan that spiked when severe cold weather caused a volatile swing in wholesale electric prices. For the next month, the Lehmans turned off lights and didn't use the stove or the dryer.
As cold weather makes a return, the Lehmans don't have to worry. They have rid themselves of their variable rate plan and their competitive power company. Their decision means there will be no surprises when wholesale prices fluctuate because they are getting power from a traditional utility whose rates are set by regulators.
We simply don't trust those outside groups anymore, Forrest Lehman said. It may be a little bit more than the other guys, but they can't just jack up your rates a ridiculous amount.
The Lehmans are among 53,559 Pennsylvania electric consumers who have ditched competitive power suppliers since last winter's surprise surge in bills that spurred a flood of consumer complaints to the state attorney general and utility regulators.
The trend is a marked turnaround from 2013, when 123,359 residential customers left their default utilities, according to the state Public Utility Commission, with many of them likely lured by the promise of cheaper rates.
To be fair, many people are still happy with their competitive supplier and are not bolting back to their traditional utility. The PUC says 1.83 million residential customers, 38 percent of the market, received their power from a competitive supplier at the end of October.
Officials are encouraging those and others who are considering a switch from a default utility to pay careful attention to their contracts heading into the winter season to make sure that their rates aren't variable or, at least, are fixed for the winter when prices are likely to be volatile.
It's just a dangerous, dangerous situation for a residential customer to go into a variable rate, said state Rep. Bob Godshall, R-Montgomery, who sponsored legislation to cap price increases in variable rates after consumers complained last winter. The measure didn't come up for a vote, and Godshall said he will reintroduce it in the next session.
Some people who were blindsided by costly bills last winter were unaware that their rates were variable. Some had signed up for a fixed-rate plan that expired after a period and became variable. The Lehmans, who live in Williamsport, were among them. They said they didn't notice their fixed plan changed to a variable rate.
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A frigid, 28-degree morning was not enough to stop a local veteran from helping another.
A OK Septic owner Tommy Stanfill, who served in Iraq and Afghanistan, crawled from underneath World War II veteran Wesley Hay Sr.s house Friday on East 14th street in Columbia.
Hay, 94, tried to fix several water leaks under his home earlier this year using Scotch tape. He has had several problems with people swindling money from him for promised work to his home.
Stanfill read a story about Hay in The Daily Herald and came into the office Wednesday and volunteered his time to fix the plumbing problems. He visited Hays home last week to assess the situation.
I just have a heart for it, Stanfill said about why he helped. I am a vet, too.
Hays home had several broken pipes that were leaking water, requiring at least three hours of work to fix, Stanfill said.
Its not that I felt sorry for him, but hes an older gentlemen. He isnt asking for help, and he is trying to do it on his own, Stanfill said. He is not out here asking for a handout. You can help people who want to help themselves and not feel bad about it.
Hay was shipped to Hawaii in 1942, after the Dec. 7, 1941, attack on Pearl Harbor. He served in the South Pacific from 1942-46 as a mechanic in the U.S. Armys 509th Ordnance Heavy Maintenance Company.
After leaving the service, he returned home to Tennessee and ran Hays Repair Shop in Columbia for about 40 years.
Joy overtook Hay when asked his feelings about getting help.
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GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. The temperature outside is dropping, and many around West Michigan are cranking up the thermostat. That means furnace repair companies are gearing up for the busy season.
Earlier in the season tends to be a lot of intermittent issues, said Dave Drescher of GRapids Heating and Cooling. People tend to forget to maintain their furnaces, he said, a carry over issue from last year. Later on in the season, as we get to where the systems are wearing more, are running a lot more, we tend to find hot surface igniters or flame starters tend to go bad.
But what should you be doing to make sure youre not left in the cold as the winter wears on?
Change the filter on a regular basis, Drescher said. He recommends checking the filter on a monthly basis.
Dirty filters, especially once we start a fresh season and somebody maybe forgot to change their filter, were going to take a look and see if the filter is dirty. Can we see through the filter?
And unless youre a handyman, Drescher says, dont try to be a Mr. Fix-it.
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