utilities

Despite the Trump administration’s hostility towards renewable energy, information released by the U.S. Energy Information Administration shows that utility solar capacity — large scale projects that provide electricity to power grids — has increased 33% since 2025.

Rising electricity prices are part of a statewide trend driven by consecutive rate hikes, high energy consumption, and a system that lets investor-owned utilities pass on costs to customers.

Through FPL Saving Steps, eligible customers who received assistance from the Emergency Home Energy Assistance for the Elderly Program (EHEAP) within the past 24 months will receive a one-time $200 bill credit and practical energy-saving education designed to help lower future energy bills.

The way a new Florida law is written doesn’t guarantee consumers’ utility rates won’t go up because of new data centers, energy policy experts said.

The Public Service Commission approved the refund, which will result in a one-month reduction in base rates to reflect any "revenue over-recovery" charges from the Juno Beach-based FPL.

The crux of the decision dealt with how FCS calculated depreciation of its infrastructure and the related costs to maintain reliable service.

Riviera Beach’s utility director, Joshua Niemann, is no longer on the job he held for less than a year.

Utility profit margins are one reason why electricity bills are rising, the report says. Advocates say low-income communities are hardest-hit by the costs.

The Key Biscayne Council is expected to take formal steps on the project at its Feb. 10 meeting, moving to bury all utility lines in a project that Mayor Joe Rasco said at the workshop will cost up to $81 million, nearly double the 2019 estimated cost of $46 million.

For at least one water utility in Central Florida, PFAS settlement payments are starting to arrive.

Florida Power & Light’s proposed rate hike will have its first hearing on Monday before the Florida Public Service Commission. Ahead of the hearing, consumer activist groups held a press briefing to press the PSC to reject it.

Residential rates would be raised about 2.5% through 2029 under a new rate plan Florida Power & Light said that it plans to formally file. The new rates would be set once the utility's current base rate agreement concludes at the end of 2025.