TAMPA - Residents and businesses in the Tampa Bay area soon will be paying a lot more for electricity. Customers of Tampa Electric Co. and Progress Energy will see a double-digit percentage increase in their electric bills beginning next year under plans approved today by state regulators. ...more

November 12, 2008

TAMPA State regulators are expected to decide today whether Tampa Electric Co. and Progress Energy can raise electric bills next year to cover higher costs for oil, natural gas and other fuels used to generate electricity. Under TECO's proposal, bills would increase about 12 percent beginning in January. The cost of 1,000 kilowatt-hours would rise from $114.38 to $128.44. ...more

November 12, 2008

Something else to blame on the grim housing market: The Bay area's largest power providers are losing customers for the first time in memory. ...more

November 1, 2008

The Bush administration is nearing a decision to remove North Korea from a terrorism blacklist and may do so as early as Friday in a bid to salvage faltering nuclear disarmament talks, The Associated Press has learned. ...more

October 9, 2008

The state's lead environmental agency agrees with many points that Hernando County expects a judge to consider in the approval process for Progress Energy's proposed power lines. ...more

September 23, 2008

A new nuclear plant may be nothing but a big bombing target. Any nation with nuclear power plants offers its adversaries, in effect, a quasi-military capability to use against it, proliferation expert Bennett Ramberg, an official in the George H.W. Bush administration, warned in 1984. ...more

August 26, 2008

Ken Sturmer of Hudson says not all children are a gift from God and neither is nuclear power. ...more

August 6, 2008

Progress Energy Florida, Central Florida's largest electricity provider, said today it filed an application with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to build two nuclear reactors on a 5,000-acre site in southern Levy County about 10 miles north of Crystal River. ...more

August 1, 2008

State regulators have approved Progress Energy Florida's plan to build two nuclear power plants in Levy County. ...more

July 18, 2008

Progress Energy Florida's plan to build two nuclear power plants in Levy County was approved today by state regulators. ...more

July 15, 2008