Tamil Nadu Electricity Board [TNEB] — unreasonable bill amounts even after multiple complaints & meter change

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Chennai, Tamil Nadu, 600010

We live in an apartment with 3 floors. Almost all apartments have window air conditioners in their rooms. We do too. We are just two people in the house and hardly ever switch on our AC.

The bill amounts we've been receiving for 2-month period have been unreasonably high over the past couple of years. We've complained multiple times after which the EB guy said we had a bad/old meter. He replaced it by charging us Rs. 4, 000. Not much has changed after that.

This month's bill shows Rs.10, 100... I ask - What could make up a EB bill of 10, 000 rs.? Would it be 2 hours of switching on AC at night? Our neighbors in the same apartment complex laugh at us because their bill is never more than 2000 rs. in spite of them using AC and other appliances much more and theirs are families with 5-6 people too.

Don't know how but the EB folks seem to have control of what bill amount they assign to your consumer account; they were able to even reduce the amounts for a couple of months when we complained (sounds iffy)

This has been going on for way too long; Like I said - we've complained multiple times with no help and luck.

Service Number: [protected]
Name: Jothi Swaminathan, Kilpauk, Chennai