Can you get electricity from multiple companies?

Indoor Growing
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I recently moved to a new place.

I made an electricity supplying contract with Company A.

Time passed, first electricity bill comes from Company A.

I pay the bill.

A few days ago I got an electricity bill from Company B, for the same date range I paid the Company A bill of.

I do not have a contract with Company B.

Help me understand this.

How can I be getting electricity from two different companies at the same time?

Especially considering that I don’t have a contract (never have had) with the other company.

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Could be a scam? I’ve had a company claiming to be collection agencies try and get $. For actual bills I’ve had and paid.

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Call your state attorney general and give them the information.

If it is a scam, it will go away.

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Call company A. They may have a sub-contract with a solar or wind farm supplier that bills you separately. I have that “option” to pay extra for environmentally friendly electricity in my area.

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It was actually the company that the landlord said she is getting her electricity from, and recommended me the same company.

However they generate 90% of their elecricity with fossil fuels, so I made a contract for 100% renewable electricity for another company.

The bill has my name on it, not the landlords. Right address.

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Look up the companies phone # yourself and make a call. I wouldn’t call the # on the bill till i double checked it matched online. It’s more then likely a mix up but making a fake electricity bill would be simple. The amounts to bill are or the side of your house n not hard to figure out someones name or make a template for a fake bill. Hardest thing would be getting the checks cashed n that’s far from impossible.

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It matches, its a real company.

However it is too late to make the call today, they are already closed.

I will make a call tomorrow and report what they said.

I made this thread only to get an insight into the matter as a whole, that is it even possible etc…

I thought that when I call them, I am going to be like “How can you bill me when I don’t even have a contract with you guys?” & “I already have a contract with another company”.

Because that what confuses me here.

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We have monopolies here. The companies decide which areas they cover and you are stuck with them. So two don’t service the same area. The cable company did the same thing.

I also have auto pay and only my company/account number gets paid.

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Is your bill divided between “Energy Costs” & “Supply Factors”? You may be paying company A for “SF” (use of their grid) only, and company B is billing for the actual alternative energy costs. I wouldn’t put it past them.

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