The energy service company CleanChoice Energy is facing a new lawsuit from customers in Massachusetts who allege they were overcharged for electricity and were misled that their energy was coming from renewable energy sources.
“This case is about making energy companies live up to their promises,” said D. Greg Blankinship, a partner at the firm Finkelstein, Blankinship, Frei-Pearson & Garber, which is representing tens of thousands of Massachusetts customers in the case filed Monday in a federal court in Boston.
“If you promise prices tied to market conditions and costs, you can’t turn around and charge families double or triple the utility rate month after month,” Blankinship said in a statement. “This lawsuit seeks to recover that money for Massachusetts consumers.”
The suit, which seeks class-action certification, alleges CleanChoice had marketed itself as providing energy from local solar and wind farms, when it was actually purchasing energy from the grid and then buying renewable energy credits.
