A win-win for FPL, public
Florida families and businesses count on reliable, low-cost electricity every hour of every day. That’s why we asked the Public Service Commission (PSC) to approve a settlement agreement developed with a broad coalition of customer groups.
This agreement enables necessary investments for reliable service in our fast-growing state to replace aging infrastructure and build more power plants and battery storage to serve growing power needs, and add innovative technology like smart grid, which helped avoid 2.7 million customer outages last year.
The agreement supports all of this while keeping bills low, stable and predictable through the end of the decade. FPL’s typical 1,000-kwh residential customer would pay about $2.50 more a month next year, less than 9 cents a day, and a typical bill in 2026 would be about 20% lower than it was 20 years prior when adjusted for inflation.
We listened to customers. We compromised on some issues without compromising on our core principles of reliable service and keeping bills as low as possible. We believe the PSC and the public will agree this settlement is a win for FPL customers and for Florida.
Armando Pimentel Jupiter
The writer is president and chief executive officer of Florida Power & Light.
Don’t punish by viewpoints
Thank you for informing your readers about the Florida “Law aimed at punishing Trump protesters” being used to punish fans who stormed a football field to celebrate a UF victory.
Without your coverage, I would not have known that our state actually passed a law intended to punish people taking certain actions to express a particular political viewpoint, but not intended to punish people taking the same actions to express different viewpoints.
Now, please assign a reporter to investigate the problems such a law presents under the First Amendment and the Equal Protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.
My understanding is that those constitutional provisions prohibit punishing people for actions expressing a particular political viewpoint while allowing exactly the same actions to express different viewpoints.
I hope you can find a few professors of constitutional law or American History at some of the fine universities in this state who can enlighten your readers — and Florida legislators — on these important constitutional protections. Perhaps my understanding of the Constitution is wrong (who knows these days?) In that case, they can enlighten me.
I generally appreciate your journalism. But I think your omission of the constitutional issues raised here leaves your readers less well-informed than you probably intended.
Barbara Green Oakland
Leadership should unite
Sen. Rick Scott often says he’s “making Washington work for Florida families.” But in his recent official newsletter he accused Democrats of “hating President Trump,” of wanting “handouts to illegal aliens,” and of “funding abortion and trans surgeries.” These remarks are at best misleading and at worst outright false.
But the remarks aren’t even updates on legislation — they’re partisan attacks sent from an official Senate office, paid for by every Floridian, including the millions who didn’t vote for him.
A senator’s duty is to serve all constituents, not just his supporters. Using public resources to spread contempt crosses a bright ethical line. Harsh rhetoric in campaigns is one thing; weaponizing public power to inflame citizens against one another is another.
Florida needs leaders who lift people up, not tear them down. Leadership should unite, not divide.
Sara DeRudder Ormond Beach
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