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Overview

Customer Info

Customer Guide

Overview

Understanding
Your Choices

Making a Choice

Choosing to Change

Protecting Your Account Info

What Will Change, What Won't?

Glossary of Terms

Answers to Questions You May Have

Protecting Your Rights

Consumer Risks

Checklist for Choosing a
Supplier

Questions

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Customer Guide: Consumer Risks

Switching – If you choose a retail electric supplier, there is no guarantee that you will save money on your electric bills. Be sure to ask the supplier whether you will face any risks by switching to the supplier. Ask the supplier if there is a minimum term for which supply must be purchased (for example, 12 months). Select Checklist For Choosing A Supplier for questions you may want to ask a potential retail electric supplier.

Returning to bundled service – MidAmerican Energy's delivery service tariffs allow eligible residential and small business customers to return to bundled service. If you lose your source of electric supply (for example, if your supplier withdraws from the market or drops you as a customer), you are placed on MidAmerican's Interim Supply Service for up to two monthly billing cycles. Interim Supply Service rates, which are temporary, may be higher than bundled service rates. During this period, a different retail electric supplier may be chosen.

Following the Interim Supply Service period, if another supplier is not chosen, the account is reviewed to determine bundled service eligibility. It may be necessary to complete an application for service and pay a deposit. You may not be eligible for the same bundled service rate that you were on prior to your switch to the retail electric supplier.

Once you have returned to a bundled service rate, you will not be eligible to choose another supplier for 12 months.






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