{"id":260020,"date":"2026-05-06T01:16:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T01:16:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/260020\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T01:16:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T01:16:13","slug":"duke-energy-florida-to-issue-90-5-million-refund-lowering-summer-power-bills-for-2-million-customers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/260020\/","title":{"rendered":"Duke Energy Florida to issue $90.5 million refund, lowering summer power bills for 2 million customers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Duke Energy Florida&#8217;s customers will see a slight decrease in their bills, after state utility regulators on Tuesday authorized the company to provide a $90.5 million refund for over-collections from the 2024 hurricane season.<\/p>\n<p>The Florida Public Service Commission approved the refund, which is expected to be about 56 cents percent 1,000 kilowatt hours of use, starting in the June billing cycle.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The payout will continue through September.<\/p>\n<p>After Hurricanes Debby, Helene and Milton struck in 2024, Duke was approved to charge residential customers $33 per 1,000 kilowatt-hours starting in March 2025.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The storm-charge was collected through January 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Duke has more than 2 million customers across 35 counties in Florida.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The company collected slightly more than $1 billion for storm-related costs that ultimately came to $915.3 million, according to the PSC, spurring the need for the refund.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Duke Energy Florida&#8217;s customers will see a slight decrease in their bills, after state utility regulators on Tuesday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":260021,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[4502,28,30,29],"class_list":["post-260020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-atlantic-hurricane-season","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260020","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=260020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260020\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/260021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}