ENTERGY!!!!

[Anonymous Poster]

Ahh NIMO, a prime example of a union and its contracts providing an example of how to NOT RUN an electric company.
A few years back I was doing a job, 400 amp service, 1 phase, 240 volt. This was a replacement service, 15 feet from the pole with the transformer serving only theat building.
I was fully accustomed to working with the old RG&E, a real electric utility, so I had expectations NIMO would operate the same way.
Spent 1 day waiting for the planner, who couldn't do his plan till the engineer looked at the job. (big plan, 15' of triplex)
Spent another day waiting for the engineer.
Brought a lawn chair to the jobsite.
Bucket truck "A" arrived, and determined there were branches in the way. Called for tree truck. After lunch, the same 2 clowns arrived in a different bucket truck, to remove the limbs.
Next day, Planner returned to be sure the limbs were gone.
After lunch, bucket "A" arrived and hung the triplex from pole to building.
Next day, meter crew arrived, 1 clown wired up the meter while a second comedian on a ladder routed the service conductors thru the CT transformers.
Next day, bucket truck "C" arrived to connect the wires at the building end. After lunch, the "inspector" arrived to make sure the wires were properly connected. (this guy had to be a relative of somebody important)
Next day, bucket truck "A " arrived to connect wires at the pole.
None of these guys understood me finding it funny the way they milked the job. They really took an attitude when I informed them 2 RG&E linemen with a knuckle bucket would have done the whole dam job in under 4 hours.
RG&E is now part of Eastern, and is learning how to "work" the Eastern way. The old linemen all took the job buyout and early retirement, so all the maps better be dead on, or nothing will get fixed. All the trucks now have GPS and satellite communication, probably to another planet because nobody here knows what is happening.
Just might be time to take another look at Solar.

 

[heehaw]

water co's must take the same courses..around here, if you buy some rural property, and there is a water bill owed, you don't get water till its paid...no matter that the one that owes the bill lives 3/4 miles down the road and owns/operates the local country store..he just happened to overextend himself and lost the property, so he wouldn't pay any of the bills..so the new owner was stuck with paying.
heehaw

 

[soarkrebel]

Well i guess i could follow up. i called entergy and they said it is considered a business account because i don't live in it. they would be happy to hook it back up for a $59 .00 deposit and a $17 a month fee plus usage.
so i asked what if i just tied it in with my house. . i was put on hold and then told that would be ok if a electrician did it. so i'm think i'm going to dig me a trench , buy some conduit and wire and tie it in. i doubt i will use more than $17 a month just running some light every once in while and a camper refrig. on it.
hee haw water co's do have a racket. i have to pay a debt fee every month to pay for the water system. it will be paid until the debt of laying the lines are paid for . i don't mind paying some but it is $38 .00 a month just for the debt fee. then i pay usage. i kept my well for watering but they , the city water company, came out and checked to make sure the well was not hooked to your house. since i have a va loan i had to be hooked to city water for them to approve my loan.
oh and another one that burn't me was southwestern bell charged $59.00 to change my service. they just keep reaching into my wallet!!!!!i'll be eating spam for months!!!

 

[cstocks]

I had been trying to figure out why the elect. co. had you on two meters to start with. My uncle, who lives in Columbia county, has a metal building about 25 ft. behind his house and has it tied into his house service. Digging a trench and connecting it to your existing service makes a lot of sense to me.

Utility companys do have a racket going for them. I live in the city limits but do not get my water from the city. Instead, I pay a private co. for my water. The base fee is $35 a month and they they tack on for water and sewer usage above and beyond that. Their rates are higher than what the city charges and they base the sewer rate on the water usage rate. So even if %30 of my water goes on the ground this month from washing cars and watering my garden I am still rated and charged for the full amount as though it had gone to the sewer. What a ripoff.