Harshit Agrawal, a businessman in Aligarh, mistakenly paid Rs 28 lakh to the electricity department instead of Rs 2.8 lakh.

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Electricity rates across the U.S. are rising, and earlier this year, the U.S. Energy Information Administration projected that retail power prices will grow faster than the overall inflation rate ...

The Energy Department projects that next year, data centers and other commercial facilities will use more electricity than households for the first time. Electricity costs continue to climb nationwide ...

If your utility bill has increased recently, you're not alone. Electricity costs are, on average, 5.5% higher today than a year ago and natural gas has increased by 13.8%, according to data from the U ...