My energy company promises I'll get 100% of my energy as renewable energy which makes me feel warm and fuzzy inside. I recently learned that allegedly a not insignificant percentage of the renewable energy source is from landfill gases which produces more waste than other "non-renewable" sources, but that's for another day.
For those who don’t know me – like anyone I don’t know is reading this – I live in a garage apartment behind a house divided into four apartments and logically it makes sense I’d be in unit 5. However when they built the garage apparently the electricity company decided that I lived in unit B with the garages I live over being unit C.
When I signed up with Green Mountain, they kept sending my bill to unit B instead of 5. I didn’t think much of it, and apparently either did the person living in unit 2, where the post office sent the bill. At least I didn’t think much about it until they switched off my power. Granted it's my bad to not start asking around ahead of time, so I can't offer any excuses.
I call my old electricity company and they said to contact Green Mountain Energy. I call them and they ask my account number which I obviously don't have. We finally get to my address and they said they sent me a couple bills, put a notice on my door, etcetera. Sure enough unit 2 got my cut-off notice, but Green Mountain did manage to turn off the power to the correct unit - mine.
To make a long story a blogs length, I remember just wanting power and paid whatever they asked and they turned it on the next day. I asked them to send the bill to my email account, but they couldn't. They can only send me a bill via postal mail.
The energy company that not only produces clean energy but has the word green in it’s name can’t send electronic bills, but only on paper. My bank, gas company, phone, cable, internet provider all offer to email me my bills if not overtly trying to get me to sign up for paperless bills. None of them has the word green in them yet can stop paper bills. None has the word Energy either but that's not what this blog is about this week.
Last week Green Mountain finally made it into the green age offers a paperless-bill option! Of course I immediately signed up. The only way I knew about it was that I logged into my account since to pay my bill when, as usual, I didn’t get a bill from them…
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