Wes WolfeJanuary 25, 2023
4min0
These underground lines are holding up to flooding.
Tag: electric utilities
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Scott PowersMay 2, 2019
5min746
Utilities must submit 10-year plans to 'harden' power grid against hurricanes.
Scott PowersApril 26, 2019
6min841
More storm protection, but likely higher rates.
Staff ReportsMay 21, 2018
6min253
With last year’s Atlantic storm season among the strongest, the Florida Public Service Commission (PSC) urges residents to prepare now for the 2018 hurricane season, which runs June 1-Nov. 30. The commission, which issued a press release Monday, regulates the state’s investor-owned utilities. “Hurricane preparedness should top our to-do lists,” said PSC Chairman Art Graham […]
Staff ReportsOctober 3, 2017
2min497
The Public Service Commission, which regulates investor-owned utilities, on Tuesday set into motion its plan “to review electric utility hurricane preparedness and restoration actions during the 2017 hurricane season,” the panel said in a press release. “The review will explore the potential to further minimize infrastructure damage that results in outages,” the release said. Chairman […]
Guest AuthorSeptember 19, 2017
11min330
It is the height of a highly destructive hurricane season in the United States. The devastation of Harvey in Texas and Louisiana caused nearly 300,000 customers to lose electricity service, and Hurricane Irma has cut service to millions of people. Soon, winter storms will bring wind and snow to much of the country. Anxious people everywhere worry about […]
Michael MolineApril 4, 2017
4min462
The Public Service Commission bestowed its blessings Tuesday upon a rate settlement that will allow Gulf Power Co. to raise prices by nearly $62 million per year, but give the utility less of a return on investment than it wanted. Gulf Power originally sought to charge its customers in Northwest Florida an additional $106.8 million. “I […]
Staff ReportsNovember 21, 2016
2min317
Duke Energy Florida Inc. hopes to make its power lines friendlier to birds. The company is undertaking a pilot program featuring redesigned electric transmission lines deemed less likely to zap our fine feathered friends into oblivion. That will entail replacing horizontal lines with vertical or stacked models, and replacing some poles to achieve better spacing. “The […]
Associated PressNovember 9, 2016
10min182
He felt it in the breeze. Nearing the end of his long, improbable journey to victory in the presidential race, Donald Trump, the candidate of so much tumult and bluster, waxed nostalgic about how he got there. “I had great parents, great parents,” Trump told the crowd at a rally in steamy Orlando, Florida. “I […]
Staff ReportsNovember 2, 2016
1min299
Duke Energy Florida is getting a new president — Harry Sideris, whose promotion takes effect Jan. 1. Sideris has served as senior vice president for environmental, health, and safety since 2014. He will work from the company’s Florida headquarters in St. Petersburg. He succeeds Alex Glenn, who will become senior vice president for state and federal […]