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How To Pay Your Electric Bill
Buckeye REC's new bill format
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Buckeye REC provides several options for paying your electric bill.
The co-op's Rio Grande office is open 7:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday, except holidays, for transaction of business. There is a conventional drive-through payment window, in addition to walk-in service. Please remember to bring your bill with you.
Our office is located at 4848 St. Rt. 325 South near Rio Grande, OH.
Of course, your electric bill payment can be mailed. Please send a check or money order. It is not advisable that you send cash through the mail.
The mailing address is:
Buckeye REC
P.O. Box 200
Rio Grande, OH 45674
The Buckeye REC Lawrence County Office is located at 5459 St. Rt. 217, Willow Wood, OH, next to the Linnville Post Office in a building shared with the Lawrence County Soil and Water Conservation Service. This is a full-service office open 7:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m.. Monday through Friday, except holidays. An after-hours payment deposit box is available for your convenience.
PAYMENT STATIONS
Several area businesses accept Buckeye REC bill payments.
Payment Station sites include:
- Aid: Dickess Market, St. Rt. 141
- Athens: All locations of Hocking Valley Bank
- Albany: Hocking Valley Bank, East Washington St.
- Beaver: Matthews Family Foods, 5556 Beaver Pike
- Gallipolis: Foodland on Jackson Pike
- Jackson: The Zone, 73 E. Huron Street
- Jackson: Hogo Wireless, 1029 E. Main Street
- Middleport: People's Bank on 2nd Avenue
- Pomeroy: People's Bank on Second Street
- Rutland: People's Bank on Salem Street
- The Plains: Hocking Valley Bank, North Plains
- Wellston: The Detour, State Rt. 327 at Exit 17 off Hwy. 32
Do not remit payments by mail to the Payment Stations.
PAYING YOUR BILL ON TIME
Why pay more than you owe? A 10-percent penalty is charged on all bill payments not received in the BREC office or at pay stations by the due date. A "postmark" date does NOT qualify as the date payment is received. One of the best way to avoid late fees is to use our automatic bank draft feature.
BILLING OPTIONS
Credit/Debit Card Draft: For members who call monthly to pay their electric bill with a credit or debit card, Buckeye REC is now offering payment by "automatic credit/debit card draft." You will still receive your monthly statement in the mail but will no longer need to call the office each month. Click here to download a credit/debit card draft enrollment application. Contact the member service department of one of our local offices for more information.
Automatic bank draft payment plans are available. Click here to download an application for automatic payments!
Budget billing is also offered. Budget billing allows you to pay a set amount every month. Once every 12 months, a "true-up" of the account occurs, based on actual usage. This reconciliation occurs during the month of May. The true-up might require you to pay for an excess amount of kilowatt hours used during the period if usage exceeds your budgeted monthly total. Or, if usage is less, you will receive a credit from the true-up. Budget billing participation is based on credit rating, and the amount of the monthly bill is an estimated average from the previous 12-month period based on actual usage.
For more about these programs, call Buckeye REC at 1-800-231-2732 or (740) 379-2025
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