ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. \u2013 The city of St. Peterburg\u2019s deal with electrical utility company Duke Energy expires at midnight Friday evening.<\/p>\n
No power is expected to be shut off.<\/p>\n
Still, Duke officials said no negotiations to renew their 30-year agreement are scheduled and no talks appear imminent.<\/p>\n
In fact, St. Pete leaders have floated the idea of dropping Duke as its power carrier. Clearwater had similar talks but ultimately dropped the idea and signed a new agreement with the utility company.<\/p>\n
“Duke Energy is exploring the implications the franchise agreement expiration will have on the city and our company,\u201d Duke said in a released statement. \u201cWhile continuing our commitment to provide reliable service to our customers.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. \u2013 The city of St. Peterburg\u2019s deal with electrical utility company Duke Energy expires at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":216579,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[115,596,275,202,204,203,199,201,200,135],"class_list":["post-359037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-news","tag-pinellas-county","tag-spectrum-news-staff","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news","tag-tampa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359037","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=359037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359037\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/216579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}