SFE Energy -- Profile Analysis

Had a sales rep knock on my door and explain to me about fixed rates which I wasn't aware are an option so I signed up to protect myself.

Locked in to one monthly fee for my natural gas which cover me up to 750 therms per year which in California ias about all I use.

I had one of your sales rep knock on my door and invited them in as it was very hot out and she was friendly and said she was just there to help me understand my utility bill better. She asked for my bill which I didn't mind getting since she said that is why she was here and she broke down my bill for me and showed me what all the rates are and meant, I found her very helpful. She then went on to explain to me what SFE energy offers and that I had options when it came to utility rates which I didn't know until now. I decided to sign up as it looked like it would help me and she said we would have to do a verification call to complete the enrollment and other details to confirm my account which was reassuring . Overall I found my experience with her very helpful and she was straightforward, very patient explaining everything to me and wasn't trying to push me to sign anything which I found comforting.

Representative was here today to sign me up. Her presentation was clear, concise, and very informative. I expect significant savings for both gas and electric services by transferring my business to this company.

I had a young lady come to my door, she explained I had a daily rate and it allowed me to use up to 10,00KWH for electric and 1000ccf for gas, which allowed me to use more without the pricing spiking. My bills have been consistent and Im not surprised month to month. Now if the utilities could lower the stupid delivery fees then that would be nice.

Definitely worth it!

Denise was a wonderful representative! Im excited to see how my bill is next month. Its Green energy ,sold me at that.

Sfe is one of the second suppliers I know that offers unlimited gas usage !! Thank for hiring respectful young people to help the community

Pleasant and efficient customer service. Very knowledgeable customer representative.

The agent that came to my door was very nice and knowledgeable. Thanks Destiny!

Destiny was amazing! She was super patient with my 3 kids and explained the product so well. Definitely will recommend to my friends and family

Cant wait for lightbulv!

La representante fue profesional! Gracias Destiny

Love Ashley and pay

La represente era muy profesional y explic bueno

Thank you SFE for bringing Ashley to my door and helping with my bill PS give her a raise!

Agente puede venir cualquier da gracias SFE por ayudarme con mi pago

Im so glad SFE came to my door and help me understand my bill. I use too much gas!

I signed up with this company years ago , and this gentlemen knocked on my door and he wanted to see my bill I told him no at first then i brought the bill and i already had sfe ! He gave me the customer service number so I can get there updated rate ..... thanks Giovanni !

Had a lady knock on my door and explain options to lock in my electricity rate, overall good experience and hopefully will save some money

I had one of your sales rep knock on my door and invited them in as it was very hot out and she was friendly and said she was just there to help me understand my utility bill better. She asked for my bill which I didn't mind getting since she said that is why she was here and she broke down my bill for me and showed me what all the rates are and meant, I found her very helpful. She then went on to explain to me what SFE energy offers and that I had options when it came to utility rates which I didn't know until now. I decided to sign up as it looked like it would help me and she said we would have to do a verification call to complete the enrollment and other details to confirm my account which was reassuring . Overall I found my experience with her very helpful and she was straightforward, very patient explaining everything to me and wasn't trying to push me to sign anything which I found comforting.

Great service. My bill has never been this low.

Sfe energy has helped me out so much ! I have a family of 5, my kids leave the lights on all the time No matter how many times I tell them to TURN IT OFF!! This young lady came to my door and explained to me how my usage wont matter .... I love it ...#forget the uneducated people

Had a great experience when Agent Mahmoud came by and explained the benefits of the flat pricing program
they offered. Now I am enrolled and dont have to how much energy Im using , it comes in flat every month!

I was busy working from home and a representative from sfe named Mahmoud came to my door. I was unsure at first but I listened. He informed me about customer choice and broke down how my bill worked.
and so now I have a flat rate every month .

I usually ignore anyone who comes to my door, but this time I didnt. A representative named Mahmoud came to my home and the experience was delightful. I finally got my first bill and the rate is fixed as the representative stated so as long as it stays that way for 3 years Ill be satisfied .

I had a young gentalman come to my door and talk to me about this service caused by the wild fire and it would assure me that my gas price wouldn't go above 29.99$ every month. My bill has been double! Thinking about swewing this place I am not gonna pay callenelation fees see y'all in court!

Nice,talk with the sales person,was not told that its 180.00 cancellation fee, so you gave me very little discount, i dont think so, please inform the contract to the people thats taking advantage of people that are on disability like me to scratch the bottom of my pockets and make ends meet, 180.00 no that's for my personal needs, your on my scam list,and you waited two hours before the other company eas to take over to key us know, you have to know that they're ate phone calls that we sit and wait for hours on hold ,another way to have us by the b
.... thanks but no thanks ex customer from Atwater Ca

Absolute SCAM. They take advantage of senior citizens who do not understand the market. They also take advantage of poorer communities who might not speak english well either! They told my parents that they were being forced to change and that if they were going to have giant pay hikes. They play shady by acting as if they're part of your electric company and going door to door saying they need to update your record on something. They call all the people and they press all the button pretending to be you and skipping the entire fine print over the phone so you don't hear the warnings. My parents signed up (more like they signed them up since they didn't want trouble with PSEG) BUT they were not told that 1, there was a contract for 3 years and that 2, there would be a cancellation fee of 160 dollars.

Advice, if they (SFE) are ever inside an apartment building(or on your lawn) without the super or a tenant, tell them to leave at once or call the police for trespassing on private property. They ARE NOT PSE&G nor do they have any business being there.

Overall Scam. The say they are from your energy company and you must sign. I had the sales lady tell me what to say while on the phone so my service does not get interrupted. My bill went from $25 to $166. They should be investigated... also the 5* reviews on here are obviously fake...same review different dates and names...same name different review dates.

So i went from 40$ to 120 $ hahah what a SCAM..

They are liars.

They entered my building identifying themselves as PS&G and I need to fix an error in my account. He made a call and passed the account details and solved everything because I don't speak English. So now I have an account 3x the normal value they are dangerous

These people are scammer... Their salesman will knock the door saying that its an assistance program with pg&e and assure you to provide fixed charge for gas and low pg&e bill.. But u will get shocked after you get your pg&e bill almost double than u r usually paying... when u call them to cancel there is another scam as they ask you a $300 for cancellation fee... They are making huge money by scamming people and their main target are elderly people and immigrants F*****g scammers

Should have known better than to switch to them. A man came to my door saying my electric and heat would go up with my current company, had papers and everything, statistics, everything so he said switching to sfe would save. WRONG! My electric bill jumped 4 times higher than it should have, heat separately went up about 3 times as much. Worst company I have dealt with, customer service didnt understand that I wanted to cancel. Plus the cancellation fee for both is $80 so thats $160 for both. Horrible company feels like a scam and I fell for it.

My PSEG bill before SFE is around $30. After signing up with SFE, bill amount is $176. When I called customer care for cancellation, they told me that the cancellation is fee is $114 and it will take two months time to take effect which means I got to pay like $176 for two more times. I will end up in paying $500+ for no reason. Instead I have given an option to change to a new plan and to a new contract for two years. Per my bad experience, keep yourself away from SFE.

I have dealt with 3rd party suppliers before all of which locked in a max rate per unit of energy used and if rate went down they would match it. This was not the case with SFE. I asked the "sales associate" several times if I was paying fixed rate per unit of energy used - told me I don't understand and that my bill will be cheaper because I'm currently being overcharged. Looked at the next bill and it was fixed rate per day regardless of gas and electric usage. BILL WAS 5X HIGHER THAN IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN given amount of energy used. Tried to cancel twice so far and it hasn't gone through.

DON'T WANT THESE PEOPLE NEAR MY HOUSE! My electric bill quadrupled since they convinced me to switch!!! I should have known it was too good to be true smh!

My previous bill was only $29.99 dollars. With SFE bill jumped to $80.47. Scamming in the highest order!!!

Horrible people its big scam, they got my information from somewhere I didnt even know I had account with SFE energy the supervision name ALI its criminal its said the salesperson name STEVEN SARACENU hes male deal regales about the account with SFE ENERGY they stole money from people, I talk to them on the phone very unprofessional what so funny I call PSE&G to tell them why none call or contact me about unusual move with SFE energy, they said its by the law they can do Whatever they want. Its fake company they dont deliver any supplies energy full of it, when I ever pay not more the 23$ with PSE&G now I end up pay almost 400$. Those people should go to jail, they rip off people

I received a cold call to change over my utilities. The woman started her rehearsed script and it sounded fine until I interrupted her to ask questions to verify that this was a legitimate call and not a fishing call. She was mildly flustered by going off script but she was polite. Thank you Lisa. But my concern is that I would be paying considerably more for this program. (Beyond the additional $6 service charge). So after looking at my bill I saw that my delivery rate was coming up as 13.06/kwh vs 15.47 that they were quoting me. About a 16% difference. I called the customer service line and got a third party call center over seas, so I called the number she called from back and got someone who identified as her team leader. He was RUDE. He kept talking to me like I was inconveniencing him. He said that the difference was additional fees that I was not seeing thought National Grid's billing and then he "man-splained" that the difference we were discussing was less than a penny. No kidding. If I were buying one kw of energy then yes, it would be a penny... but I am buying them by the thousand... which adds up. We are talking about a possible 16% increase in my utility bill.

This company would send an associate to your house door and claim falsely that they are partners of your gas provider in order to make you sign an agreement with them. Then they would charge you a flat $30 for your gas consumption on a monthly basis in addition to the fees of your actual use. Furthermore, they would make it extremely hard for you to opt out of their service by keeping lying to you and giving you fake promises. If you manage to cancel your agreement with them, they would charge you high cancellation fees as if you had begged them to get their service in the first place. I kept calling them and emailing them to cancel the agreement, and every time they would lie to me by saying it was my original provider's responsibility to cancel stop their gas agreement with me. Eventually, I had to play a trick in order to end their scam agreement completely after all of my other efforts to end it failed.

This company called me saying that their phone call was from pse&g and asked me pse&g POD # in order to send me an apology check because I over paid. They lied to me to enrolled me in their electric supplier. The they called from was not in service I got their number after I was enrolled. Is not fair

my bill was 50% higher than previous year

Bill just went up. Still charged for gas from pge and sfe now. Plus huge cancelattion fee. DO NOT unser any circunstance believe them telling you it will save you money.

They lied to us and said we had to switch from our current company because of the apartments we live in. Now that we've just cancelled we're being hit with a $216.79 cancellation fee.

This company is a scam. They lie to customers and they also lie to new employees. Ray Islam is the number one liar and thief along with his team members Luis Deleon and Steven Caracena. DO NOT get involved with this company.

A young man showed up at my door claiming that he can work with me on lowering my PG&E bill. As the dumb and tired person that I am, I showed him my PG&E bill as he asked, and signed up for the service. I thought it was sus that I had to call through my phone to confirm my application. I quickly tried to finish up the entire visit and immediately called customer service to cancel my plan after reading all the horror stories online - especially on reddit. If you keep calling and cancel within the same day (Or in my case, 15 minutes after I shut the door), you should not have to pay any cancellation fees. I even called again to confirm that I wouldn't have to pay fees since I canceled within the same hour.

TDLR; Don't sign up. It's a scam. If you weren't thinking correctly at the time and signed up, cancel within the same day, and keep calling and emailing so you don't pay any fees.

I never really paid attention to my PGE Bill till it said I owed 546$ for just this month. Like WTF!! I ALWAYS TELL MY WIFE DONT BELIEVE THESE PPL AND LOOK NOW IM FUCKING 800$ in debt!!! And now they are charging me a 250$$$ cancel fee!! They can go eat shit!!! How TF have they not been sued yet?!?

Scam scam scam

They arrive saying that they are on behalf of the electricity or gas company because people are claiming for increases in their bills, then they enroll you in a program and your bill is tripled. my average bill was $ 70 and from one month to another it went up to $ 210 because of these scammers.

I had a rep come to my door and tell me he was with BGE and my house was on the list for high utility expenses and I would get a credit of 75.00 for 3 months if i would like the credit i would have to do a phone verification I was never told my supplier would be changed and I was lied to . When calling the CS line I kept getting spoken over trying to convince me to stay but not apologizing for rep lying stating he was with BGE not a 3rd party. It felt like a scam . So disappointed

Weve been approached by these leeches three times. The first time we fell for it and lost $100 due to fine print. AVOID.

I had a lady come to my door and make it seem like I had to sign up or my bill would increase. She did not explain that this was a contract. So, not only did my bill double as a result from signing up but they are trying to charge me $250.00 for trying to cancel. This makes no sense!

They pretend they are with PGE, instead they rip you off!! High cancellation fee!!

A guy, taking a folder with PSE&G documents, knocked my door told me he was sent by PSE&G to make sure all the residence signed a contract with the current energy supplier to lock the current low energy rate. All residence must sign, then I found a contract of SFE energy NJ with my signature sent to my email. I was asked to confirm the contract immediately by phone, but I refused, telling them I need time to read the contract first. I found according to the contract, my natural gas price will increase from 38C to 83C/therm, and the electricity will from 12C to 17C for three years. Now is winter, I guess my bill will be doubled if they were success. Apparently, they have successful made some residents in my community signed a contract with them. Try to call the campany to recind the contract, never got connected.

NO STARS. They are predatory and a scam. They presented themselves as PSE & G said my account was wrong and needed to be fixed, I fixed and then moved months later. Suddenly I get an early cancellation bill from SFE but to reiterate, they presented themselves as my current company and are now threatening collections for an early cancellation fee. Just stay AWAY

They will charge you a lot more than PSEG company. I was paying around $40 per month with PSEG then added SFE. Paid $190 per month. They told me I can cancel anytime without any cancellation fee but they asking for $80 for cancellation fee. Stay away from SFE if you dont want to waste your money. If need proof I can show the bills with PSEG and SFE to compare.

Tale as old as time, had someone come to my door. Talk up this company by telling me Im gonna be saving money. Maybe I really signed up cause these people dont know how to take NO for answer when you try and nonchalantly get them off your door step. honestly everything was fine till I recently got a bill saying that they were charging me an arm and a leg for a cancellation fee...... and Im like WHO TOLD YOU I WANT TO CANCEL MY SERVICE?!?!! NOT ME? I call pge and they have no answer for me. I call sfe and Im left on this stupid holding line everytime I call.... I am unemployed. I cant afford for some money hungry company to randomly decide this is the one we are gonna fuck with and get more money out of. They got their cancellation fee from me today. Made my account go negative but they got it. TAKE MY MONEY SO I DONT HAVE TO DEAL WITH THIS COMPANY EVER AGAIN! DO NOT, DO NOT, SIGN UP FOR THIS COMPANY!!!! I will be putting the word out on next door to not talk to the representatives if they come to your door to sign you up for this crap.

SFE is a scam. I used to work for the Maryland location. If you call them out for their awful customer reviews they say things like " Oh its a billion dollar company of course there will be bad reviews. They mistreat their employees. They drop us off in random locations and we have to go door to door ALL day NO breaks. Alot of woman end up leaving because unlike the guys who they tell us to just use the bathroom behind a tree or something the females would have to either wait for a ride to use the bathroom or walk. They do not save you money and all they are trying to do is switch your supplier. Switch at your own risk. Oh yeah one last thing we get our paychecks through cash app. While I was working there I have never seen a paystubs and I was there for a little over a month

They lie to me took $240 dollars from my bill I call PSE&G they took the third party supplier out but I had to wait 3 months they lower my bill is all a scam dont listen to this people
Next time one of them come to my house I will beaten shit out them

Reps knocked on my door, signed me up with promises of a lower bill.....WRONG my bill doubled so I cancelled my service but I was overcharged by $300! I want my money back and this company is located in CANADA not the USA

They came to my door claiming to be from my power company and said that by signing up with them I would be switching to green energy at no extra cost. My actual power company got in touch and told me it was a scam, so I cancelled. SFE sent me a $250 cancellation bill, which sucked, but I paid it to be done with them. Then, a month later, they sent me ANOTHER $25O bill for cancellation. I have not been able to get in touch with their customer service to resolve this yet, but you can bet they're going to get an earful.

Huge scam! Dont even entertain these people when they come to your door. They pretended they were associated with PSE&G, asked me to sign my initials to provide permission for them to email me information, and then to participate in a phone call where the guy was giving me the answers I was supposed to say. Meanwhile in reality, they were signing me up for their service, not just taking my information to provide me with further details at a later time.

Person showed up at our door advising us that they are the new energy provider in my neighborhood. Sure, I could have questioned more. My bills went up, cancelling requires a ~$500 fee OR I have to stay with them for another billing cycle. I was manipulated and charged more than if I had stayed with BGE. Total ripoff.

My father died 4 days ago, I told them this, they were still extremely rude and pushy. I finally had to shut the door in their face a second time to get them to leave me alone. I will never do business with them.

Do not ever go for SFE energy. The salesperson is just scamming you by saying that the total gas charges might reduce but they forget to mention the gas procurement charges which they charge every month. It shoots up the bill unnecessarily even if you are not using the gas every single month.
They will charge you a contract cancellation fee as well, which is totally unnecessary.
Stay away from SFE if your usage is minimal.

I worked for this company for a few days and they never paid me and they do not care about there employees they will have you working getting a heat stroke

They came to my door and made it seem like they're partners with pseg, and as if they're just taking reading and keeping prices less. My bill was almost $300!!! They never mentioned anything bout cancelation fees which is like $86 for electric and another $86 for gas! I can't wait to cancel and just stick to pseg!

My bill went high sky after I enroll them by mistakenly. They promise to keep your PSEG bill in a certain amount and it is a lie. Now I can not reach their customer service. They do not answer the phones and emails. I am not sure about the cancellation fee and can not even find out about it.

If a young persons comes to your door promising you low energy bills - SHUT THE DOOR!! This is a scam!! I don't know how it is legal for SFE to do this. My gas supply charges went up by $80 and their promises of cancelling at anytime for only $2.50 is a bold faced LIE! I learned my lesson the hard way. I will never answer my door to a sales person again thanks to SFE. Too much hassle and stole my money right in front of me. I feel like a total idiot. Don't make the same mistake.

I was tild my bill would be cheaper and it has been over double every month,total scam and rated an F by the bbb,which im also reporting them to.

Some representative from SFE came to my house random and starting telling me how I could save money on my gas bill and SFE was providing options to low income communities by each month 50$ dollars refund back to customers each month and that SFE had low income neighborhoods best interests.It was all a lie my bill went up and the 50$ dollars a month refunded back to me turned into a $50 coupon off shopping meaning I had to spend my money,when I found out this information I tried to cancel service and they did not cancel,Two years later the contract by expired.And can you believe SFE renewed there own contract without my consent.I am going to sue the ,_)(+&_& out of these crooks most dishonest company I have ever had dealing with.Where is the consumer protection against companies that are nothing more then fradulate crooks preying on consumers.Refund all my money Now.

They came to my door for the third year in a row, offering a fixed rate but not disclosing that, at my current rates And the associated PGE fees, I'd be paying more per month after the initial few months. Stop harassing me, and your employee didn't wear her mask correctly.

They lied to me and my wife about our bill being lowered they lied about telling us that we were notified of a cancellation fee of 250$ per gas and or electric bring total to about 500 to cancel I was on budget billing minding my business paying what I was paying a month and they sent my bill over 125 dollars more a month no way I will tolerate this I would not have signed up if I knew about a cancellation policy no

Had a representative that preferred to have his/her name not used came to the door with very very strong pushing for sign up with contract with seemingly good terms. Individual unfortunately would not go into explicit details of various savings and costs, a quick search of BBB complaints revealed that either this particular commissioned worker chose not to disclose the finer print details of costs. Various fees were omitted, including a cancellation fee PER MONTH were not disclosed, or outright glossed over instead going into details about savings without any hard numbers. Further went on to give long stories about how they worked in Maryland and faced discrimination about their asian heritage while working around the neighborhood here instead of providing concrete hard details of numbers and figures.

Furthermore had been pushed into calling an unknown third party that was greatly interested in getting our details and vocal acknowledgements of agreement (more specifically requesting re-acknowledgement to be "Yes" or "I Accept" rather than other terms) and after requesting a brief pause for consulting with family members the agent hung up on us. ( Why is there even a third party handling sign ups in lieu of the actual company representatives? )

Very suspicious experience over all, do suggest caution and to review papers thoroughly yourself or with an impartial (4th?) party that isn't one recommended by door-representative. And also request time to review paperwork and a contact name/number to use if needed.

Representative did display a badge of the company that was verified.

Date- 121521

My problem was they told me one price and for month it was low. The second month it was high the third bill was higher . I called to cancel and was told I could not. Once I told her I was going to BBB they cancel. My bills have been so much higher then it's been since buying my house in 2005. I would not recommend this company to anyone.

She lied a out her intentions and signed me up for another supplier

Added an extra 40 dollars to my bill. I was only paying 30 dollars before SFE and now I pay 70-100 a month. Horrible

While whatever theyre doing seems legal and legitimate, its just a business designed to deceive unsuspecting customers into paying more, and then worst of all , paying a cancellation fee. Its utterly shameful and humiliating. Literally the worst business Ive ever experienced. A very strong lesson for the future: some people are really just out to get you:

The guy John came here lied about everything misrepresented like he was from the city of Akron and I had to sign up for this otherwise my bills were going to go up. He stayed here the entire time and wouldn't leave, when the lady on the phone asked me if he had left he stayed here and told me to lie that he was gone. If they come to your door call PUCO immediately so they know to look in the neighborhood and check and see if they did it to anybody else.

I received a call stating they were BGE, I asked a dozen times. After they got my ID they put some arrogant schmuck on, Rick Jannes, who continued to tell me he was from BGE until he told me to write down the name SFE Energy and basically laughed in my face and told me that's how business is done when I confronted about lying

The representatives come door to door and provide you with false information about your bill. I was informed that my bill would not change and it should be cheaper because I was being overcharged. Also informed I could cancel anytime free of charge. After receiving my bill in the mail it in fact went up by 75.00 due to the energy provider. When I called to cancel, I was informed it would be an extra 275.00 bill because I am cancelling service.

A representative came to my door stating I'm paying $40 monthly which is too high and he can bring it down with switching the supply with SFE. Now they send $283 bill just for gas which I have very minimal usage that it can't exceed $40-$50 at any cost as it's a 1 bedroom apartment with one person living in it and not a Bungalow. And top of that they sent me cancellation charges $255 which was told to me as $7. Why these scammers are able to operate openly and how could PG&E have the option to switch the company if these scams are happening. I will do a lot of their publicity by putting this everywhere if they don't resolve this matter ASAP.

We were ready to sign up until we found out that there is a monthly fee of $33.15 no matter how much gas you use!!! NO DEAL!!! So with monthly fee we would of been paying $1.16 per CCF not the $0.699 we were quoted!!! Also there is a fee of $50.00 per month for electric!!

Fail to disclose who they are and are SELLING gas rather than an audit for my current supplier. Should have hung up then and there. The very next day I called SFE to cancel giving all information. Only after a few weeks I got mail and the same day returned the written cancellation allowed by law to Mass-SFE, which was also never declared over the phone, as not being national SFE.
MASSACHUSETTS should also clean up their telemarketing laws.

SFE is just some thieves together ripping money from citizens. They come to you and say things all beautiful and you start receiving 4 times your old bill. My aep billing was below $100 and they said they can lower it my bill is now $475. Bad customer service and they will tell you that they will put you on a collection to destroy your credit report. Dont ever sign up with SFE energy

The young lady that came to my door told me how my electric bill would be lower. Received my first bill and because of SFE Energy Maryland my electric bill had doubled. They are charging me a large customer recovery, but I live in an ALL electric home so I will ALWAYS have an overage. The people that come to your home are not knowledgeable about all the extra fees and the customer does not know about the fees until you are already signed up with them. Then they have nerve to want the customer to pay a fee for not wanting to be taken advantage of. I would NEVER recommend SFE Energy to anyone!

This young guy "Tyler L" came to my elderly mothers house and told her she was being overcharged. Signed her up at 9.99 when she was paying 3.89 and broke her current contract. I called him that evening when I stopped by he was extremely unprofessional and kept hanging up on me when I asked about cancelling & his supervisors number.

Run & run quickly. If I could have put zero Stars I would have!! A gentleman came to my door offering a better rate on my gas & electric. I explained I was in a co-op with my utilities. He told me my electric would be 4.6kwh with them for 3 years. I don't recall what he said the gas would be. We looked at my bill & saw I was paying 4.9 kwh, so trying to save a little money during pandemic times, I agreed to switch. He used my phone to call customer setup, put it on speaker phone & then told me he was going to stand there & "help me through the call-but don't tell the agent that he's there". He wrote yes, no & my account number on his notepad. As the agent on the phone talk to me, he would point to yes or no on his notepad as the answer he wanted me to give. Something felt really off about it but I went ahead, against my better judgment. When the call was over, he told me it would take 2-3 billing cycles for the new bill to come. That was in late June 2022. Well, I got my bill for the month of September 2022, yesterday.... It's normally $56 but this bill was $127!!!! I'm on the budget plan so I called my electric company immediately. The agent explained that even though I'm on the budget plan with them, SFE was charging me 5-something PLUS a daily customer service fee that equalled $44!! WHAT?!?! That was never explained nor agreed upon. So I'm locked into a 3-year contract at 5. whatever with a daily customer service fee.....nope, I'm done. I called SFE to tell them I wanted to cancel service because this is not what was explained to me and I felt like I have been frauded. The SFE agent profusely apologized, told me she would be glad to cancel my service and then told me there's a cancellation/exit fee of $250 per utility = $500! If I wasn't mad before, I'm furious now. I told her that was fine because I needed to get off the phone before I said something I was going to have to go back and apologize for later. I went to work and called on my lunch break and spoke to a different agent and explain the situation and that there is no way that I am going to pay $500 for an exit fee when I feel I've been the victim of a scam and I'm going to report them to the Better Business bureau. That agent profusely apologized and told me to send them a copy of my bill where it shows I'm on the budget plan and they will waive my exit fees. I immediately sent them the email with the bill screenshot attached. I'm going to wait and see what they do but I'm still going to report to the Better Business bureau! This is a scam as far as I can see and I do not recommend them at all!

Came to my home trying to tell me that I had missed letters bge had sent out about how I needed to change suppliers. Despite the obvious lie they seemed nice enough, so I agreed to be sent information on them, clarifying they were only sending information. They stated I should sign up immediately as they could only do it in person with them. I declined, saying I would never sign up without researching, and ended the conversation. Received an email asking me to verify security questions and agree to a contract, which I declined. Found other similar scam issues online and cast them from my mind.

Two weeks later I get letters from my energy supplier saying that it's being switched to SFE that day. I call them to correct the issue, and the person on the phone seemed to take down a complaint and acknowledge that I was not using them as an energy supplier. She asked if I wanted to file a formal complaint, which I said yes to, then placed me on hold. A minute later it went silent, then hung up. I tried to call back and were told they were closed, so who knows if they even bothered to take down any information.

This company is a scam. They deserve no stars. Please be advised and do not open your doors. Very hard to cancel.

I was lied to and told it was my current company and needed to correct my pricing.
I made several attempts to cancel.
Despite paying to cancel, they have sent us to two additional collections agencies and called repeatedly harrasing my business.

Not only do they impersonate your company, but they also lie about how theyll drop the prices of monthly bills. Theyre pushy and wont take no for an answer during the application process

Door to door scammers.

Their salesman came and said they work for PG&E. He sure dressed up like one too. I couldn't tell at the time. Said he's checking our watts meter and making sure it matches so we are not overcharged. I didn't know he was signing me into the program until received an email telling me that I enrolled into SFE energy. he told me I will be refund up to $50. It was my bad. Thanks for being honest with me now I will never ever go near SFE energy when I see one.

This entire experience has been a nightmare not only did I cancel within a week of signing up they then did not proceed with my cancel ending up charging on top of my PG&E and a extra $500 that I paid not realizing that it was from Sfe and now they are refusing to give me any kind of refund and it is now been six months. I am extremely upset with this company and would not recommend this to anyone. The only thing I would say is stay the hell away and do not let them talk to you.

Come to your door and show you inaccurate price projections and put you on a plan is going to make them the most money.

They pretend to be your current company, they claim there is no cancellation fee. Turns out both were lies. I would say the single most unethical organization that I've dealt with.

When I found the rates were not as low as they promised I decided to switch. Two days after switching I got a phone call asking if I had approved the switch after telling them I did they said I would have to pay a cancellation fee. I called the company I switched to and they are paying a portion of the cancellation fee, I dont recall being told their was a cancellation fee.

I think those great reviews are from people who work at SFE. Or maybe there's a difference if you don't have solar panels. They're charging me over $40/month for nothing. And to make it worse, early termination will cost me over $400. DON'T SIGN UP!!!

NEVER USE THIS COMPANY. Had the sales rep come to my door promising a lower price for my batural gas usage. Said I would save 20 to 30 dollars a month. It cost me that much more on my bill. Then when I cancelled, PFE told me it would take 2-3 months to cancel. Then I got a $490.35 cancelation charge.

I had a couple of SFE energy people come to my door and tell me some story about how there was an accounting error with my current supplier and I needed to switch or my price would increase. I supplied them with my bill and they mislead me and showed me the wrong information on the page, lying about my current charges and claiming to be able to cut my cost in half for the KWH cost. I guess it is my fault for believing them and not reading everything myself, because my current rate was $0.6 per KWH not $0.12 like they said it was. They also add a $1.30 a day cost on TOP of the increase in cost per KWH. Scammed me and I fell for it. Please do not choose SFE energy, literally any other provider would be better. My bill increased over 100% after they took over, it literally doubled. Cancel fee is $500 as well.

I experienced a very disappointing situation that led me to consider it the worst decision I ever made. I was repeatedly deceived by this company. Despite knowing I had an ongoing lease agreement 1 year, they insisted so much on the cancellation being possible that frankly, they wore us down. Turns out, the reality was very different: now they demand $1100 USD to cancel a service I used to pay $18 USD a month for. It's disheartening to feel manipulated in this way.
I feel deeply deceived and let down by this experience. It's regrettable that a company chooses to deceive its customers in such a manner. My advice to anyone is to never share any information with them. It's a sad situation that I hope others can avoid by learning from my experience

The sales rep for SFE Energy came to our company saying they are an energy auditing company. They work for National Grid to make sure we are getting the lowest rates for our gas supply. They said this is just an audit to make sure we are paying the lowest rates. Also if the rates go down they want to make sure our rates automatically adjust down. Never once did they mention they were a competing company. Their rates are outrageous and their sales tactic is criminal. I am going to file a complaint with the State of Massachusetts.

I have canceled this contract three times now. I got physical letters from my energy companies saying I cancelled with SFE but in a matter of days or months SFE keeps restarting my account saying someone called in and restarted it WHEN I LIVE ALONE. The second time I cancelled, I told them to send me the recording of the caller because I guarantee its the girl who came to my door, lied about what company she was with when she asked me to get my bill for a surge charge in the area, and then wouldnt leave my house until I said everything she wanted me to say on the call to start the SFE contract not knowing I have cameras in my house. I cancelled for the FIRST TIME after she left and confirmed the next day that it was indeed cancelled and told them this about their employee. I later find out they restarted it. So I called again to cancel after paying nearly 400 dollar in Columbia gas bills and 230 electric bills even when Im not in the house on vacation, again, its only me here. My bills went up hundreds of dollars from using SFE, WHY WOULD I WANT THEM AS A SUPPLIER?! WHY WOULD I CALL TO GET THE CONTRACT RESTARTED? I WOULDNT!!! I DIDNT!

They never gave me the recording but confirmed that I did cancel that day and said they would do an investigation and send me the recording via email. Next thing I know Im getting a bill in the mail that says I OWE SFE for early termination fees even though it was THEIR REPRESENTATIVE that called back and restarted my policy for her ongoing commission and it wouldnt have been fees seeing as they have been charging me for months UNJUSTLY due to a money hungry commission worker. All calls are recorded right? Send me the recording of the caller that called in if it was me, they have yet to do so. Usually when you cancel an overpriced subscription/contract, you leave it cancelled yet they have claimed twice now that I called back and started it again TWICE . I HATE SFE AND WOULD NEVER AND WILL NEVER HAVE THEM AS A SUPPLIER AGAIN AND THAT IS THE SAME THING I TOLD THE REPRESENTATIVE last time , I even went as far as telling them IM WARNING OTHERS ABOUT THEM, which I did. I went on to tell him that I would never call back to restart the policy and asked what number did they call from. No NUMBER was given. EVEN after recieving ,what was suppose to be the first and is now the second SFE termination contract without investigation, it stated pay this in 10 days or it goes to collection YOU would think it would end there. NO, recently they started it up again. When I got hit by a SEMI and had to stay in the hospital for the recent holidays, these SFE COLD HARDED UNPROFESSIONAL IGNORANT WORKERS decided it was the best time to change it back. CANCEL MY POLICY AND LEAVE IT CANCELLED. I wouldnt recommend them. If you are in the Toledo area they will claim to be with your energy company, they are NOT with Toledo Edison or Columbia Gas. Stay away from these scammers unless you want to pay them over 4000 over the course of 11 months on top of the bill you get for regular gas and electricity because they dont help, it just adds on. Its like you paying two people when you could just pay one.

Sales rep came to my door acting like a pge employee and was already speaking in a somewhat passive aggressive tone and then said he was from SFE and coming on the behalf of pge when I called out his uniform . That was the first red flag I missed. I was told my rates would be lower but I was foolish considering I already get the care credit reduced price. Point is , it locks you into an overpriced 3 year contract and you have 3 days to cancel to avoid the cancellation fee. I was lucky enough to get a customer service rep after about 45 minutes on hold ( probably intentional) and I was able to cancel during the 3 day cool off period (CA). I assure you any good reviews are either in regions where heaters run constantly from year round cold or they are FAKE 100%.
Ive seen on Reddit they dont always truly cancel so to get this done request confirmation number and tell them you will be hiring a lawyer and going after them for deceptive and fraudulent practices and are expecting a cancellation email within 48 hours. After this they came to my door a few more times knocking very loudly. If I lived in Texas I would have .Ill just leave it at that.

Before this supplier my electric bill was on average 30-40 in the winter and 60-90 at most in summer.. when I switch to SFE As my supplier I now pay 100$ in the winter and 150-200 in the summer. And none of it makes sense, I live in an apartment, I compared my bill to my neighbors, who doesn't have a supplier. She's paying of what I'm paying, my kilowatt was less then hers and Im paying 72$ more. I compared my bill to my mom's, who also has a different supplier, she has a 3000sq. Ft. Home, she's paying the same per kilowatt... But my bill was 69$ more then hers and she used over double the kilowatts I did. I unplug everything when I leave... I'm very cautious of how much electric I use. But I'm paying double or triple what everyone else pays. BEWARE OF THIS COMPANY DO NOT GET THEM AS A SUPPLIER.

Their representative came to our door and talked my girlfriend into letting him sign my electric and gas up, that are in my name only.
He lied and said that he was sent by the City of Akron, that they were already our service provider, that if we didnt renew (we just moved from out of state) that my bills would go up, that there would be no change to my bill if she let him sign me up, that they were the aggregation provider for the city, and that she could sign on my behalf. All lies.

I only found out after shed signed and was up half the night reading the agreement and learning everything about utility deregulation in Ohio.

These people need to be put out of business and in prison cells. The only good thing I can say is that if you realize the scam within a week, and confront them the people on the phone will play good cop, like theyre sorry their people out on the streets are spreading lies and committing fraud against vulnerable people.

If youre reading this because you too got swept up in their web, make sure to send their customer service an email documenting their employees lies and call your gas and/or electric companies to confirm cancellation and opt out of marketing through your gas and electric companies. And if you havent already, go to the store and get a $2 No Soliciting sticker, its a worthwhile investment.

all my dealings with this company have been nothing but dishonest. a man showed up at my door on a fri evening after dark wearing a peco hat and jacket. he said he was with peco and that peco was changing their energy supplier to sfe. he said i needed to sign a form to continue receiving services. he then stated that for some reason my paperwork was missing my account no. and he asked for an old bill so he could complete the form. he made a telephone call on his phone and then asked me to read from a card that said sfe is an energy provider. last he said peco would plant a tree to thank me for my time. my mistake for not reading the form. it was dark, i was tired, and i believed the guy was from peco. turns out he completely misrepresented who he was with and why he had come. unbeknownst to me, i had signed a 3 yr contract to switch my gas and electric to sfe. i called their customer support and was told by 2 reps that the service had not yet been switched and that all cancellation fees would be waived. that was not the case. i received a bill from sfe for $90 for cancellation of the electric portion and so another call to customer support. this time i was told i would also receive a $90 bill for the gas cancellation and i would be taken to collections if i did not pay. i called yet again and was told by another rep that management had tried to call me and that they were unable to reach me--i have no missed calls on my phone. last, i submitted a negative review on sfe's site and they did not post the review. management is now to call tomorrow. no legitimate company with any integrity would operate like this. and after googling sfe, i can see that their door to door sales force has been preying on the inexperienced, elderly, etc for yrs. amazingly, sfe allows the misrepresentation to continue and then charges exorbitant cancellation fees when the scam is figured out.

This company came to me door and assured me that if I move I could easily cancel this service with PECO. My husband was transferred and we moved out of state. I called SFE gas company and they denied this stating I would get billed for cancellation fees. I sent them a verification document where I moved and they still insist that extra fees for cancelling before contract ended (4yrs) would apply. CAUTION --Do not use or recommend this company

My regular bill last month by PECO was $338.78. With SFE discount $555.33. Thanks for the discount SFE. Another attack on Senior Citizens. This is shameful business for people who worked all their lives and retire and on a set income. Now I have to pay $216.96 this month extra.

High pressure sales and extremely deceitful. They are NOT at all green/renewable energy which is just one of the lies I was told by the sales rep. Horrible company.