Florida Politics - Campaigns & Elections. Lobbying & Government.

Scott PowersSeptember 19, 2017

Bob-Cortes-Chris-Flack-Jason-Broder-Scott-Plakon-David-Simmons.jpg

Duke Energy not only missed its deadlines for restoring power in Seminole and Orange counties and elsewhere but glitches in its information system provided little and often wrong information to customers, leading its lobbyist to apologize and promise better to Seminole’s lawmakers Tuesday morning. Duke, once faced with 1.3 million customers without power following Hurricane […]

Scott PowersSeptember 13, 2017

Wednesday hundreds of thousands of Florida power customers got their lights turned back on but almost exactly one third of Florida is still waiting. The latest numbers from the Florida Office of Emergency management show 3.5 million customers still were without power at 3 p.m. Wednesday, representing 33.4 percent of all Florida homes and businesses. […]

Scott PowersSeptember 12, 2017

For the first time since early Monday morning, power is on for just over half the state of Florida. That means 5.47 million homes and businesses still were without power at noon today, according to the latest data compiled and provided by the Florida Office of Emergency Management. That’s 48 percent of all electricity customers […]

Scott PowersSeptember 11, 2017

Central Florida is mainly dealing with power outages throughout, with more than 1.1 million residences and businesses reported without electricity Monday, a situation that also plagues traffic lights and other services. With an estimated 372,000 residences and businesses without power and counting countywide, Orange County’s curfew remains in effect through 6 p.m. Monday. The Orange […]

Peter SchorschSeptember 7, 2017

Florida Power & Light announced Thursday that it is putting workers in place around the state to quickly respond to possible power outages in the wake of Hurricane Irma. “We continue to pre-position an army of line and vegetation workers across the state where they can make the biggest impact as soon as it is […]

A.G. GancarskiOctober 11, 2016

The post-Matthew blame game has started in Jacksonville, as the initial rush of emergency preparation has devolved into finger-pointing and excoriation. At the center of the storm is the local utility, which was criticized heavily during Tuesday’s meeting of the Jacksonville City Council for sewage spills and restoration timeframes that turned out to be fictional. […]

Scott PowersOctober 8, 2016

On Florida’s northern Atlantic coast from New Smyrna Beach to the Georgia state line, residents may spend a second straight evening in the dark. Massive power outages are being reported as far west as Baker and Bradford counties, after Hurricane Matthew’s journey north up the seaboard Friday. 673,019, or 8 percent, of Florida electrical customers lack power. […]

Staff ReportsOctober 7, 2016

Hurricane Matthew now has knocked more than 1 million electricity customers in Florida off the grid, according to the governor’s office. The latest numbers, as of 3 p.m.: Over 90,000 without power in Duval County, over 50,000 combined in St. Johns and St. Lucie, over 30,000 in Palm Beach. In Orange County, there were almost 70,000 without […]

Scott PowersOctober 7, 2016

More than a half-million customers statewide including most in Brevard and Volusia counties have lost power due to Hurricane Matthew, the office of Gov. Rick Scott reported Friday morning. The hardest hit areas, as expected, are the coastal counties from Martin through Flagler, with more power outages expected in coming hours as Matthew lurches northward toward Jacksonville. […]

Jim RosicaOctober 7, 2016

Screen-Shot-2016-10-07-at-10.08.06-AM.png

All eyes are now on Jacksonville as Hurricane Matthew creeps its way up Florida’s Atlantic coast, Gov. Rick Scott said Friday morning. “This is still a 120 mph storm, and we are very concerned about storm surge,” Scott said during a briefing at the state’s Emergency Operations Center in Tallahassee. He was surrounded by state Division of Emergency […]

Tag: power outages

Duke Energy acknowledges problems, apologizes in Seminole County

Nearly half-million customers get power; one-third of Florida waits

Slightly more than half of Florida now has power

372,000 customers without power in Orange County, 1.1 million in Central Florida

FPL positioning ‘army’ of workers across Florida

JEA CEO lambasted by Jacksonville City Council for hurricane performance

As of 6 p.m, over 673,000 Floridians still have no power

Over 1 million now without power, governor’s office says

More than half of Brevard, Volusia residents without power due to Hurricane Matthew

Concerns over hurricane now turn to Jacksonville, Rick Scott says