So we called Joseph Meissner, a Legal Aid attorney who specializes in utilities cases. I've read a number of these contracts, and all of them are filled with traps. These traps are in favor of the companies, not the customer. Unfortunately, nobody seems to know what these traps are. So we dialed up Shana Gerber, a spokeswoman for PUCO, which oversees utilities.
People breach contracts every day.
How very reassuring. But if Dominion's price isn't really guaranteed, at least it allows customers to drop the program at any time, without penalty. I'm afraid you're going to have to look at this every month. You can't simply make a deal that's going to be good for a couple years. You might have to make several switches in a year.