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The Electric Company
Monday, March 2, 2026 @ 1:13 PM

Endesa (founded in 1944) was a public company which was sold off to the private sector beginning in 1998 and finally ending up under the control of the Italian (publically owned) Enel by 2009. 

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Back in the summer of 2024, the electric company stopped sending me bills. Kind of them. I went to their local office several times, and also sent them a few emails, and was told on each occasion that the issue was 'una incidencia'.  

This continued until some fellow showed up, lost, to put in a new meter, sometime about November last year. By then, I had enjoyed sixteen months without a factura.

Since then, they've been coming in fast. Sometimes quite expensive ones as they adjust for the months consumed. Some of the facturas are for two months, others for one. I've been paying them as best I can. 

Yesterday, a Sunday (!), the company sent me nine emails. They were all different bills, some for dates I had already paid, some repeated and some new.

They added up to a lot of money.

I went to the local office and the lady there says that some of them were repeats indeed, but four of them were good... and besides, there were another two of them waiting for me in her computer. 

You can ask to pay them in parts she said helpfully...

I never got an apology or an acknowledgement - despite six visits so far to the regional office.  

I can see myself changing to another electric supplier in the days to come.  



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PablodeRonda said:
Monday, March 2, 2026 @ 5:52 PM

Do it, Lenox! I regularly change my electricity supplier, my mobile phone company, internet provider and car and home insurance policies. Water is free here in the Campo (we have a well) and we don't use gas, so I don't need to change them. My wife? Not yet! Je, je, je.


sdeleng said:
Monday, March 2, 2026 @ 7:54 PM

I am having the same problem with my village casa señoral! Just as you related, but there are no offices here or in Castellón and on the hooter they say they can only talk to my plumber/electrician as he set up the account for “obras”! He has to confirm them finished. 4 months later and a house I am not living in is sadly leaking 200+ a month. It was 279 this February. The plumber guy is a doll but me thinks something is up. Any help or suggestions re different companies and what to do when I, the owner, can not negotiate! This is the short story and better so!


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