A HAMPSHIRE man has been bombarded with thousands of electricity bills all addressed to the wrong person because of a power company blunder.

The frustrated householder has received up to 30 wrong bills every day for the last 18 months.

Now there are fears scores of residents may face action over unpaid bills.

The bills have all been sent by utility company Scottish Power and some even threaten action from debt collectors.

Now he has the backing of Romsey MP Caroline Nokes, who is calling on the power firm to end her constituent’s misery.

And she says she is worried many residents who the bills were meant for could face action against them.

Now the firm has apologised and promised to sort out the mix up which is believed to have started when the resident moved into his newly built Romsey flat, owned by Sovereign Housing Association.

While setting up an account with Scottish Power in August 2015 his address, being so new, was not recognised and it had to be created. But something went wrong. His address, he says, was mistakenly listed as the headquarters for Sovereign Housing and he began to receive hundreds upon hundreds of bills, addressed to Mr Sovereign and Mr Sovereign Housing.

And despite returning scores of the letters and contacting Scottish Power, more kept arriving, some meant for customers as far as Didcot and Swindon.

“The postman must have hated me,” he said.

“Some evenings I would get home to 30 or 40 bills; it was just so exasperating and I felt like I was getting harassed and bombarded.

MP Mrs Nokes is now calling on locals who haven’t received their bills to contact the utility company as soon as possible.

She added: “Sovereign Housing and Scottish Power now need to meet to resolve this issue so it doesn’t happen again.

“My concern is that I have constituents that may not have realised they are not receiving bills and could soon have debt collectors at their doors.”

A spokeswoman from Sovereign Housing asked residents who are concerned that they may have been affected to get in touch on 0800 5872325.”

A Scottish Power spokesperson added: “ We sincerely apologise to the customer concerned.

“Our system has been updated to remove any further letters going to this customer’s address.

“All other accounts will now be going to the correct address. If a customer has concerns we would ask them to contact us.”