Bill Swank
Bill Swank
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We'll be practicing a best practices policy. If (Constellation) does something extremely well, we can adopt the same procedure in Florida, but there's not going to be any financial impact . . . for quite a while.
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Unfortunately, hurricanes are a way of life here in Florida, and restoration is a cost of doing business.
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We've had very mild winter weather so far. We haven't heard a lot of customers complaining about their bills. Unless we get a really strong cold snap, it will be until the hot, humid weather returns before people begin noticing a change in their bills.
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We are working on them, and we will try to get to them as quickly as we can. It's only been a month and a half since Wilma. It might take another month or two.
comment evaluate fully impact opportunity premature since specifics staff
Since we have not had an opportunity to fully evaluate the impact of these staff recommendations, it would be premature to comment on specifics at this time.
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We're looking at it as an investment on our part.
confident costs related storm
We're confident that, when they see it spelled out in detail, that they will find that these were prudently incurred costs and related to storm restoration.
cause failure pole poles primary wind
The primary cause of the pole failure was not deterioration of the poles, it was the wind loading on the poles and the wires. It wasn't a deterioration issue.
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Someone is going to have to determine whose engineer is correct. That's part of the process. They try to reduce the number and we try to account for the dollars we spent.
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Fuel diversity is something we've been striving for for a long time. I think the nation as a whole is beginning to reassess its options.
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The purpose of the inspection program is to make sure that if there are poles that are deteriorating, we go out, identify them and make sure the ones that are tending toward failure are braced or replaced.
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We're dealing with a new era of higher hurricane activity and we realized we need to harden our system to deal with it here in Florida.
believe expenses recovery seeking serving
We believe the expenses we are seeking recovery of were prudently incurred in serving our customers.
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We're well over a million, and it doesn't look like it's going to ease up.