People use more electricity if they don’t see bills

Residential customers using automatic bill payments consumed 4 to 6 percent more power than those who did not, according to a 16-year study of billing records from one South Carolina utility.

Commercial electricity customers used 8 percent more. And low-income residents who enrolled in budget billing to spread the cost of seasonal peak demand across the year used 7 percent more electricity.

Posted by Karen Kemp-Duke

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