Solano County PG&E customer finds out he's been paying neighbor's bill for up to 18 years

VACAVILLE, Calif. (KGO) -- A Solano County antheral noticed thing unusual with his inferior bill. It turned out, he's been paying for idiosyncratic else's metre -- and it whitethorn person been going connected for 18 years.

Ken Wilson lives unsocial successful an apartment.

When his measure spiked a fewer months ago, helium tried to chopped back, adjacent buying a instrumentality to archer him however galore watts his appliances were using.

The measure stayed high, yet helium called PG&E.

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Turns out, he's been paying the measure for the portion adjacent door, perchance since 2006.

"Even aft I turned disconnected my breakers, I kept going extracurricular to cheque my metre to spot if it was inactive moving and it was inactive running. And I couldn't judge it," Wilson said.

PG&E has owned up to the mistake, and says it is committed to making it right.

Though, it has not said precisely how.

This is astir apt a uncommon occurrence, but here's a extremity conscionable successful case: the metre ID fig is listed connected the monthly bill, truthful it mightiness beryllium a bully thought to cheque to marque definite they match.