{"id":206762,"date":"2026-03-26T11:06:06","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T11:06:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/206762\/"},"modified":"2026-03-26T11:06:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T11:06:06","slug":"spiking-energy-costs-to-top-city-council-meeting-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/206762\/","title":{"rendered":"Spiking energy costs to top city council meeting today"},"content":{"rendered":"

TAMPA, Fla. \u2013 Rising energy costs will be a topic of discussion in Tampa on Thursday.<\/p>\n

Residents will call on city leaders to protect them from rate hikes.<\/p>\n

What You Need To Know<\/p>\n

Rising energy costs will be a topic of discussion in Tampa on Thursday
\nResidents will call on city leaders to protect them from rate hikes.
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Residents organized by the Hillsborough Affordable Energy Coalition are scheduled to speak about their own increasing electricity bills
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Tampa City Council<\/a><\/p>\n

That’s happening during a city council meeting this morning. Leaders will review the city’s energy bills over the last two years.<\/p>\n

Residents organized by the Hillsborough Affordable Energy Coalition are scheduled to speak about their own increasing electricity bills during public comments at the meeting.<\/p>\n

Residents will call on the council to protect ratepayers from further electric bill hikes by supporting affordable energy reform at the state level.<\/p>\n

\u00a0The meeting comes as Tampa Electric (TECO) customers, including the City of Tampa, have seen bills skyrocket in recent years.<\/p>\n

According to the coalition, between December 2020 and January 2026, TECO residential bills increased 86 percent \u2014 about $980 more annually. In the last year alone, TECO residential bills went up over 22 percent \u2014 about $375 more annually.<\/p>\n

The meeting follows a community discussion with 50+ community members hosted by the Hillsborough Affordable Energy Coalition earlier this month where residents voiced concern over rising rates and the lack of action from elected officials to address the matter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TAMPA, Fla. \u2013 Rising energy costs will be a topic of discussion in Tampa on Thursday. Residents will…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":206763,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[274,1563,276,2287,115,275,135,137,136,278],"class_list":["post-206762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-app-top-stories","tag-environment","tag-hillsborough-county","tag-local-politics","tag-news","tag-spectrum-news-staff","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news","tag-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206762\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/206763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}