{"id":388997,"date":"2026-09-03T05:10:49","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T05:10:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/388997\/"},"modified":"2026-09-03T05:10:49","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T05:10:49","slug":"duke-energy-st-pete-still-yet-to-start-negotiations-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/388997\/","title":{"rendered":"Duke Energy, St. Pete still yet to start negotiations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PINELLAS COUNTY, Fla. &#8212; Duke Energy wants to begin negotiating a new contract with the City of St. Petersburg as soon as possible.<\/p>\n<p>In a letter to Mayor Ken Welch, the utility company said operating without an agreement is concerning, leading to potential legal issues.<\/p>\n<p>The agreement between the city and Duke expired on July 31 and it doesn&#8217;t appear that any negotiations are currently scheduled.<\/p>\n<p>St. Pete is waiting on the results from a study of what it would cost to acquire Duke\u2019s equipment and provide its own services.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/baynews9.com\/fl\/tampa\/news\/2026\/08\/07\/clearwater-renews-contract-with-duke-energy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">When the city of Clearwater was recently considering a similar move<\/a>, Duke said its equipment was not for sale. Clearwater has since renewed its 30-year contract with the utility.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, Duke says it will continue its service to St. Pete uninterrupted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PINELLAS COUNTY, Fla. &#8212; Duke Energy wants to begin negotiating a new contract with the City of St.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":388998,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[274,558,2287,115,596,275,202,204,203,199,201,200,135,278],"class_list":["post-388997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-app-top-stories","tag-business","tag-local-politics","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","tag-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388997","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=388997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388997\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/388998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=388997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=388997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=388997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}