State Supreme Court justices Wednesday questioned whether regulators adequately justified the approval of a settlement that increased base electric rates for Florida Power & Light. The Supreme Court heard arguments in two challenges to the Florida Public Service Commission’s approval in late 2021 of the four-year settlement, which began increasing FPL customers’ rates last year.
State Supreme Court justices Wednesday questioned whether regulators adequately justified the approval of a settlement that increased base electric rates for Florida Power & Light.
The Hillsborough and Pinellas county Republican parties have recommended voters retain some of lawyers' lowest-rated judges on the state appeals court and get rid of the highest-rated, including the only one to score 90% approval on a Florida Bar poll. The parties' decision appears to center on who nominated the judges for office, not on their performance.