TALLAHASSEE – The Florida Industrial Power Users Group (FIPUG) on Thursday filed a Notice of Voluntary Dismissal of its objection lodged against the Florida Public Service Commission’s approval of the $185 million Vero electric utility sale to Florida Power and Light.
FIPUG, an undisclosed member group of commercial power users, claimed in July to be a substantially affected party after FPL on June 5 was granted by a 3-2 vote the permission to book $116.2 million in costs more than experts say the Vero system is worth. FIPUG claimed its members who are already FPL customers would pay a disproportionate share of that $116.2 million.
The dismissal of the FIPUG complaint still leaves FPL and Vero to fight off three local challenges from former Vero councilman Brian Heady, Indian River County resident Michael Moran, and attorney Lynne Larkin on behalf of the Civic Association of Indian River County.
FPL has filed three separate motions to dismiss, asking the PSC to toss out all of these challenges. Hearings are scheduled before the PSC on Oct 9-10 in Tallahassee.
