Customers Get Electricity Bills For Billions

Maybe a $24 billion electric bill will teach Richard Redden not to leave the heat running.

Actually, thanks to a printing error, Redden and more than 1,300 Weatherford utility customers in Texas this week received billion-dollar electric bills marked as late notices.

DataProse, the company which prints customer bills for Weatherford Electric, simply said they are embarrassed by the error.

"Obviously, this is not something we are pleased about", DataProse vice president Curtis Nelson said.

Customers can expect their correct bills later this month, with a spokesperson adding the company's records were correct and showed the right balances.

"I know they raised the rates on kilowatt hours a little bit. I guess we shouldn't have run the heater quite so much this month", Redden joked.

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