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5 days agoNebraska woman billed $353 by California city she's never heard of
A Nebraska woman was mistakenly billed by a California fire department for emergency services she never received due to a clerical error.
One download from a smart meter told a householder they had consumed close to €9,000 worth of electricity in the first week of March. A massive malfunction on electricity smart meters over the weekend meant some householders were told they had consumed thousands of euro of energy. Hundreds of thousands of people are understood to have been impacted by the blunder.