You have the parasites and the hosts. You have the FMPA, elected officials and lobbyists. Then you have the paying consumers. FMPA has been ripping municipal power customers off for years. It is essentially an handpicked oligarchy of cronies and sociopaths. It’s been lurking in the shadows that many “officials” were clueless about the FMPA. But […]
Vero Beach, like Fort Pierce, has closed it’s last power plant. TCPalm reports: The necessary process could take as much as seven months to complete, including switching off generators, gutting the building and laying off as many as 20 city employees. Last week, City Council approved a revised contract with Orlando Utilities Commission, which sells […]
Vero Beach and much of Indian River County is suffering from a tumor that is the Vero Beach municipal electric utility. Yet Vero city officials want to put a band-aid on the growing cancer. The city buys more than half of its electricity from Orlando Utilities. City officials have been negotiating with the utility for […]
There’s a storm brewing in the desert. The big casinos on the Vegas Strip are fighting to buy their own power. Hoteliers including Wynn Resorts Ltd., MGM Resorts International and Las Vegas Sands Corp., which operate more than a dozen massive gambling palaces in Nevada, say they could cut millions of dollars from their electric […]
Would the same happen in Fort Pierce? by Brian Barefoot The city of Vero Beach’s asking price of $64.5 million for the electric system in our town of Indian River Shores is not only a slap in the face to every utility customer, it is an example of the kind of mistaken judgment and twisted […]
After decades of ripping off electric customers in Indian River County the Vero Beach power provider is celebrating itself for lowering rates. The city could save about $126 million over the 14 years of the amended contract with Orlando Utilities Commission, City Manager Jim O’Connor estimated. Consultants still are analyzing how much the average customer […]
This is a classic example of the mafia selling protection to people who do not want their protection. They are forced to take it and pay for it. That is just what is happening in Indian River. The town of Indian River Shores wants to create their own municipal electric authority to establish home rule […]
What is good news for FPL customers means little to FPUA customers. FPL customers will see reductions in their electric rates while FPUA customers will still pay extra to help fund the wasteful City Hall. Florida Power & Light Company announced today it is planning to reduce electric rates again in 2016 as the company’s […]
The insanity of local monopolies on electricity continues to force high rates on all Indian River residents while holding a portion of them hostage. Vero Beach Utilities is negotiating a rate reduction with the Orlando Utility Commission – but that rate cut will still not be as low as FPL rates. The OUC has threatened […]
Economist Dom Armentano suggests that Vero Beach consider bankruptcy in order to lower electricity rates in the Vero Beach area. Armentano points out that Vero Beach Utilities charges exorbitantly high electricity rates in order to avoid raising taxes. It’s no secret that the 34,800 customers of Vero Beach Utilities have long paid electric rates that […]
