To combat the problem of delayed billing, the Newberry city commission plans to allow the utility provider installing an advanced metering infrastructure, or AMI.
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Over 700,000 North Central Florida utility customers are still without power.
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Duke Energy Florida expects to restore power to most of its coverage area by this weekend but hasn't projected a date for electricity to come back on in Hardee and Highlands counties, which it described as “severely impacted” by Hurricane Irma.
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Alachua County residents and other drivers throughout Florida are still struggling to find fuel for their cars as gas shortages continue.
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More than 5.5 million homes and businesses in Florida remained without power at midday Tuesday after Hurricane Irma plowed through the state.
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An initial estimate from Moody's Analytics on Monday projected property destruction from Irma between $64 billion and $92 billion.
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Florida was approved Sunday for federal disaster relief as the powerful, wide and deadly Hurricane Irma made its second landfall of the day.
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Widespread and prolonged power outages will become part of life for most Floridians over the next few days as Hurricane Irma has started to make an anticipated northern turn that will result in a destructive run through the state starting Sunday.
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Florida's West Coast is now expected to take the brunt of potentially devastating Hurricane Irma, as the system started making itself felt Saturday across South Florida.
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A federal appeals court has ordered a review of the Sabal Trail pipeline, saying that the initial approval did not take greenhouse-gas emissions from Florida power plants into account. The pipeline goes from Alabama, through part of Southwest Georgia and then through Florida to Osceola County.
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