Power Giant Demands Increases, Scoffs At Citizen Counters
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Florida Power & Light rejected a rate settlement on Tuesday, proposed by Florida’s Office of Public Counsel (OPC) and several citizen advocacy groups, says MSN.
FP&L is asking for a base rate increase of $945 million in 2026 and $766 million in 2027.
The utility giant also would collect additional amounts in 2028 and 2029 for solar-energy and battery-storage projects.
Citizen groups led by the Office of Public Council proposed a half-billion less for 2026 and 2027.
Today, Aug. 29, Florida Power & Light blasted a proposed rate settlement offered by the state Office of Public Counsel and some consumer groups, calling it “illusory and unenforceable” and urging regulators to reject it.
FP&L apparently wants the entire $1.712 billion from ratepayers over the next two years. They do not care what the customer says; instead, they ridicule it.
Therefore, Floridians are likely to suffer large rate increases over the next years, and be forced to pay for useless solar farms as the utility turns to its GreenScam agenda. Solar farm spread also means less open land for recreation, wildlife and agriculture, of course.
Really an odd end-game for the Greenie Weenies. Destroy wildlands and animals for UNRECYCLABLE pieces of junk with an approximately 20-year useful life - provided there is no storm damage, of course. But, Globalists make little real sense about anything.
Calling citizen requests “nearly a bad faith filing”, FP&L’s expensive attorneys penned a 14-page response to the OPC’s proposal, wherein citizens proposed rate increases that are far more palatable.
Tuesday’s counter proposal would result in increases of $867 million in 2026 and $403 million in 2027. It also would leave open the possibility of FPL seeking increases of an estimated $195 million in 2028 and $174 million in 2029 for generation-related projects that could include solar and battery projects, according to the Pensacola News.
The citizen/OPC request was for ONLY $1.270 billion increase in the next two years with a possibility of FPL seeking increases of an estimated $369 million in 2028 and 2029, for generation-related projects that could include solar and battery projects.
How unpalatable!
Not enough for the (not-so) “Jolly” Green giant. Two things are clear. Big boys count, little people do not.
FP&L reached its agreement with Florida Retail Federation; the Florida Energy for Innovation Association; Americans for Affordable Clean Energy; the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy; Walmart Inc.; EVgo Services, LLC; Circle K Stores, Inc.; RaceTrac Inc.; Wawa, Inc.; Electrify America, LLC; Armstrong World Industries, Inc.; and federal government agencies.
AKA, “the big boys”. Little people just pay.
There will be more hearings in October. The Florida Public Service Commission will hold a public hearing in October on FP&L’s proposed rate hike.
Commission Chairman Mike La Rosa has set aside the weeks of Oct. 6 and Oct. 13 for testimony.
Don’t hold your breath.
Citizens of Florida will almost certainly face huge rate increases for power consumption in the next four years. The show of “public input” is over.
Hope I am being too sarcastic, but I am afraid I’m only being realistic.
Florida Power and Light is in a power position. It is the largest utility in Florida, supplying 12 million people, who have nowhere else to go to get power but for home systems, which many do not want and cannot afford. Home systems have their own issues.
Basically, FP&L is a monopoly. Do what they want, or turn out your lights.
You're always the BEST, Kat!! Moving to my house in Mexico by year-end. Have gorgeous lake Chapala weather, solar hot water & power (very efficient down there), nice garden. FL is a mess.
first good hurricane and there is hundreds of acres of useless shattered glass and toxic chemicals to leech into the ground