Pre-Pay Power
With Pre-Pay Power, you pay for electricity how and when you choose, the same way you buy groceries or gasoline. Purchasing electricity before you use it allows you to control your budget and pay when you can; best of all there are no security deposits or late fees.
Instead of a monthly statement, you can track your usage by text message, email, or online.
FAQs
How Does It Work?
This automated system allows you to prepay for electricity before you use it. You can receive daily alerts by enrolling in email or text messaging to help manage your account balance. When your account runs low, an additional alert is sent letting you know it's time to recharge your account. If funds in your account run out, electrical service will be automatically disconnected. The alert will notify you by text or email that your service has been shut off. You may recharge your account at any time, day or night, online or by phone and service will be automatically restored, usually within (1) hour. To restore power you must have a credit on your account of $10 dollars. Daily base charges will be assessed to your account. If the electricity has been disconnected for at least 20 days, the account will be closed and a final bill sent to the member’s last known mailing address.
Who Can Participate?
To participate you must have a single-phase form 2S metered service equipped with remote disconnect capability and we must be able to reliably communicate with your meter. To ensure you are alerted if your account needs to be recharged, a valid email address is also required.
Not sure if you qualify, give us a call and we can review your account with you.
How Do I Get Started?
New customers must become members of Coos-Curry Electric Cooperative, Inc. and pay any of the normal fees related to joining the co-op and establishing service. Members must deposit a minimum of $25 upon enrollment in the program.
Existing members with a traditional account may convert to Pre-Pay Power at any time. Any security deposits on your existing account will be applied to your account balances. If the security deposit was greater than the electric account balance, the credit will be applied toward future energy usage.
Members with an arrears balance or bad debt may apply to the Prepay Program and request the balance be paid off over time through the Debt Management system. If enrolled in Debt Management, 30% of any payment will be applied to that balance until paid in full.
Should you decide Pre-Pay Power doesn’t work for you, it’s simple and easy to return to a traditional account at any time, although you will need to pay full security deposit, any outstanding bad debt/arrears balance, and any service fees.