electric utility

From skyrocketing utility bills to debates over property taxes and SNAP benefits — and, of course, the wildest Florida Man stories — Floridians are feeling the squeeze, the stakes and the strange.

TECO sent a letter to the chairman of the Florida Public Service Commission, asking to raise profits through a series of rate increase that would increase revenues by a total of more than $1.1 billion over the next three years.

TECO has about 800,000 customers across most of Hillsborough County and parts of Polk, Pasco, and Pinellas counties.

State regulators Tuesday took up a dispute about a Florida Power & Light plan to collect extra money from thousands of customers who refuse to allow…