Customers will pay billions of dollars in fees arising from severe weather in recent years, as utility companies pass along extraordinary costs of energy and repairs
Customers will be paying billions of dollars in fees as companies pass along extraordinary costs of energy and repairs Some of the heftiest fees to cover costs of recent storms are in Louisiana, where Hurricane Zeta tore through Grand Isle two years ago.
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