A bill advanced Monday would require gas and electric utilities to notify customers when monthly usage exceeds levels compared to the prior year. (Dana DiFilippo | New Jersey Monitor)
An Assembly panel approved legislation that would require electric and gas utilities to notify their customers about surging usage midway through billing cycles Monday, months after severe heat swelled residents’ summer electric bills .
The bill , approved 7-1 with a single no vote from Assemblyman Christian Barranco (R-Morris), would require utilities to send notices to customers on the 10th and 20th days of each billing cycle if their power usage is greater than it was at that point in the prior billing cycle or the same month last year…