This article is about Florida specifically, but I wouldn’t doubt that it would be similarly difficult elsewhere. It’s most certainly a Fucking Mess™.
If you really want, I imagine you’d notify your local electric company that you are cancelling service and requesting disconnection, disconnect your house from the mains on your side, then just never pay another bill.
AFAIK it can literally be illegal to not be connected to the grid, because corruption.
This article is about Florida specifically, but I wouldn’t doubt that it would be similarly difficult elsewhere. It’s most certainly a Fucking Mess™.
If you really want, I imagine you’d notify your local electric company that you are cancelling service and requesting disconnection, disconnect your house from the mains on your side, then just never pay another bill.