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Florida Utilities
Calls To Action
AARP Florida is busy fighting for you, but we need your help. Right now we are in a multi-front battle to stop unjustified utility rate increases statewide. If you don’t think a rate increase somewhere else in the state doesn’t affect you, you’re wrong. Please take action. Raise your voice before they raise your rates!
Stop SB 796: Call Your Senator Today!
The 2019 Florida State Legislature rang into session on March 5, and immediately began bad bills that, if passed, will create a new pathway for investor-owned utilities to add additional compounding charges outside of the base rate on monthly power bills. Call your senator NOW!
Contact the PSC and Tell Them That a Gulf Power Rate Increase Will Hurt Panhandle Residents Rebuilding After Hurricane Michael
Gulf Power, recently acquired by Florida Power & Light, is asking state regulators for a storm recovery charge of $8 per 1,000-kilowatt hour (Kwh) on your monthly residential bill for the next 5 years. In its request to the Florida Public Service Commission, Gulf Power states that it estimates that this surcharge will yield approximately $68 million per year for a total of $342 million. Take action and contact the PSC today!
Demand Action: Some Nursing Homes Still Lack Backup Power
In 2018, the Florida State Legislature passed a law last year requiring nursing homes and assisted living facilities to have emergency backup power, but many have yet to comply. What’s not being done.
Archive
We have been fighting for consumers against unjustified utility rate increases for years.
2017
- AARP Florida: Proposed Gulf Power Rate Increase Request Is ‘Outrageous’; Raise Your Voice to FL Regulators
- Proposed Energy Bill Bad for All Floridians
- AARP Florida: Don’t Make Customers Pay for Electric Company Wildcatting Ventures
- AARP Florida: We’re Disappointed in House Vote AARP Florida: We’re Disappointed in House Vote To Charge Florida Electric Ratepayers for Out-of-State Natural Gas Projects
- ACTION ALERT: Proposed Senate Bill Will Let Power Companies Gamble With Your Money
- For Florida’s Nursing Homes, We Need a Diagnosis and Cure
- AARP Florida urges Constitutional Revision Commission to Place Ban on Utility Advance Cost Recovery before Florida Voters
- 2017 Notched Floridians Utilities Victories; In 2018, AARP Florida Will Make Utilities an Election Issue
2016
- Tell the Florida Public Service Commission That Florida Power & Light’s $1.34 Billion Rate Increase Proposal Is Not Justified
- AARP Florida Calls Proposed FPL Rate Hike Insufficiently Justified; Encourages Consumers to Testify at Rate Hearings
- AARP Florida Says FPL Rate Increase is Not Sufficiently Justified, Files Petitions from 7,000 Ratepayers
- AARP Bulletin Feature: FPL’s Proposed Rate Hike Draws Fire
- FPL Rate Hike Not Needed to Serve You, It’s About Corporate Profit
- Who Stands with AARP Florida In Opposing Florida Power & Light $1.34 Billion Rate Hike: Business, Environmentalists and More
- AARP Members Say FPL Rate Hike Jeopardizes Florida Elders on Fixed Incomes
- AARP Asks State Utilities Regulators to Reject Proposed Settlement Deal on FPL Rate-Increase Request
- AARP Florida Requests to Formally Intervene in FPL Rate Increase Case Before Florida Public Service Commission
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