With business down, he fell behind in his electric payments, and Con Ed demanded about $6,500 as a security deposit.
While the Puerto Rican government did meet the July 1 deadline for its first $400 million electric utility payment, there are more payments due in the coming months.
One curiosity of the cyber-age is that the American public seems relatively unconcerned by what, arguably, is the biggest threat from the Internet: attacks on the nation's "critical infrastructure" — the electric grid, payment networks and water systems, among others.
They help cancel lost credit cards or explain why you can't see your electric utility payment online.
She tried to write checks with her left hand, but they all bounced, or, on one occasion, her electric bill payment coincided with the entire amount of her SEP IRA.
Thousands of monthly electric utility payments funneled through Mizuho have been delayed since April 1, the day Dai-ichi Kangyo Bank, Fuji Bank and the Industrial Bank of Japan merged.
When he first arrived at the church, he spent a good part of his time responding to the constant demands of the gas and electric companies for payment, he said.
With a new city and new job came rent payments, electric bills and a level of responsibility for my inflows and outflows that campus life had partially shielded me from.
An economic slowdown typically hurts manufacturers first -- because consumers and executives can more easily delay the purchase of new furniture than the payment of electric or medical bills, for instance -- but the contrast has been unusually severe recently.
They are identified as item 3 (regarding the quality of power supplied), item 5 (regarding mode of payment of electric bills), item 7 (regarding registration of complaint), item 18 (regarding new electricity connection), item 19 (regarding display of electricity safety lessons), item 20 (regarding fluctuation of voltage), and item 24 (regarding waiting time in queue for bill payment).
