How can that be?

9000 euros electricity bill for a student apartment

Roland Vith was stunned when he received the bill from the energy provider. He is owed more than 9100 euros.(Bild: Krone KREATIV/zVg)

Father Roland Vith is supposed to pay 9,000 euros for energy costs for a rented apartment in Vienna's 8th district. Wiener Netze admits to billing errors, but the electricity supplier continues to send reminders: The background to this particular case. 

Vith was astonished when he fished an electricity bill for 9115 euros out of his postbox in the spring. It wasn't for his guesthouse in Vorarlberg, however, but for his daughter's rented apartment in Vienna, who has since moved to London.