Are You Getting Sticker Shock From Your Electric Bills? We Want to Hear About It.

Upgrades to ageing utility gear and efforts to scale back greenhouse fuel emissions have mixed to drive up electrical energy prices throughout the nation, with the nationwide common growing from one 12 months to the following.

As a New York Times enterprise reporter, I’ve been wanting into the influence of the rising prices of electrical energy on client payments. With my colleague Madeleine Ngo, I lately examined how increased charges have strained the budgets of low-income shoppers — lots of whom can’t afford clear vitality applied sciences like photo voltaic panels and electrical automobiles.

We are planning extra tales concerning the rising price of vitality and the way it’s affecting folks across the nation. How costly has it develop into to maintain the lights on? What influence are electrical energy charges having on family budgets? What steps are folks taking to decrease their payments?

And we want your assist. Electric payments present precisely what shoppers pay for electrical energy. If you might have an electrical invoice that shocked you, we’d like to assessment it. I’ll learn each response to this questionnaire, and will contact you to be taught extra about your story and probably embody it in an upcoming article. I received’t publish any a part of your response with out chatting with you first. I received’t share your contact info exterior the Times newsroom and received’t use it for any goal apart from to achieve again out to you.