Image: Pakhnyushchyy/Adobe Stock J&M Plastics faces off against MidAmerican Energy Services, challenging fees charged to fixed-rate customers for service during record-breaking winter storm.
J&M Plastics, based northeast of Dallas in Royse City, TX, has filed a proposed class action lawsuit against Des Moines–based electricity supplier MidAmerican Energy Services. J&M Plastics alleges the supplier improperly charged commercial, fixed-rate plan customers line-item fees for service provided during the winter storm that slammed Texas in February 2021.
J&M Plastics is an injection molder that manufactures flower pots, coat hangers, dog bowls, and other products using recycled plastics. MidAmerican is a Berkshire Hathaway Energy company serving a total of 60,000 customers, including about 15,000 in Texas.
By Jason Taylor
IOWA - A sister company to MidAmerican Energy is being sued for price gouging.
Texas bases J&M Plastics says MidAmerican Energy Services illegally jacked up charges by $54,000 after the February deep freeze.
J&M says the utility broke its fixed-price plan agreement.
MidAmerican Services has not commented on the accusations It serves customers in unregulated areas, including some in Texas.
MidAmerican Energy Services is owned by Warren Buffett and is based in Des Moines.
In its court filing, it s proposing a class action lawsuit and is expecting other companies to join in.
The lawsuit says the electricity supplier improperly charged commercial, fixed-rate plan customers with line-item fees during the winter storm that devastated Texas in February. The suit claims there were violations of the Texas Deceptive Trade Practices Act.
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