⚖️ Can Florida Utilities Pass Fuel Outage Costs to Ratepayers? | SC22-94 скачать в хорошем качестве

⚖️ Can Florida Utilities Pass Fuel Outage Costs to Ratepayers? | SC22-94

⚖️ WEIDNER LAW | Florida Supreme Court Oral Argument — Public Utility Regulation & Fuel Cost Recovery When power plant outages cause electric utilities to incur replacement power costs, can those costs be passed on to Florida ratepayers — and if a refund is required, what interest rate applies? This oral argument before the Florida Supreme Court examines the Florida Public Service Commission's authority over fuel adjustment clauses and the protections owed to utility customers. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📋 CASE SUMMARY ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Citizens of the State of Florida, through the Office of the Public Counsel, challenged Florida Public Service Commission orders permitting electric utilities to recover replacement power costs incurred during plant outages through fuel adjustment clauses. The central issue before the Florida Supreme Court was whether such recovery was permissible and, if not, what interest rate should apply to any required refunds to ratepayers.