Duke Energy Requests Money for Tropical Storm Response

TALLAHASSEE -- A major Florida utility is asking the state for permission to charge its customers for last year's response to two tropical storms.

Duke Energy filed a petition at the Public Service Commission last week to recover more than 16 million dollars it spent to deal with Tropical Storm Isaias in early August and Tropical Storm Eta in November. Duke says both storms caused power outages, even though they weakened before hitting Florida.

Eta brought 70 mile an hour winds and put more than 140 thousand Duke customers in the dark.

Duke wants the PSC to consider its request at its June 15th meeting.

Information from the News Service of Florida was used in this report.

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