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Florida Power and Light will face considerable opposition next week when it goes before a typically utility-friendly Florida Public Service Commission with a request that board members approve what would be the biggest rate hike in Florida and U.S., history. ... FPL's rate hike, requested in February, will pull in $1.545 billion in 2026 and tack on an additional $927 million every year thereafter through 2029. That total additional revenue of $8.9 billion would likely rise if the company gets, as also requested, authority to further increase customer costs when it brings new solar and battery projects online in 2028-29....

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) -- New Hampshire regulators said Thursday an electric utility acted appropriately when it shut off power to a woman who didn't pay her power bill and died after an oxygen machine she needed stopped working. The state Public Utilities Commission reviewed National Grid's disconnection of service to Kay Phaneuf, 53, of Salem. She died on June 24, three days after her husband found her unconscious, about an hour after power was cut. Police said the bill wasn't paid. Her account had a medical protection notice intended to prevent such a shutoff in the past, but it had...