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,...
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. With the new contract, the average customer will save about $2.50 monthly but...
After decades of ripping off electric customers in Indian River County the Vero Beach power provider is celebrating itself for lowering rates. It comes not out of desire to provide customers lower rates but because the customers forced to patronize them have revolted...
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...
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...