Problem with Local Electric Company

[Ben Duq]

I recently received a bill from my electic company in the amount of $400 for my vacant 1 BR (600 sqft) town home/condo! The bill states that I used ~1500 Kilowatt hours. How can this be! I spoke with the electric company and they sent out an inspector to look at the meter and he stated that there was nothing wrong and that they took accurate readings.

I just purchased this property, and this was my first month of electric bills (so no history).

There are only 720 hours last month, that would mean I would have had to run mutiple appliances everyday last month all day. I turned off the refrigerator and the lights were off.

Does anyone know how this could have happened? Is there a way or has anyone ever had experience with someone stealing electricity? If so, how was this theft discovered etc.

Has anyone disputed a bill with the electric company? How did this turn out?