More than three months after Hurricane Dorian gave the state a major scare, Duke Energy Florida on Thursday asked regulators to approve collecting $171 million from customers for costs stemming from Dorian and a much-smaller tropical storm.
The Category 5 Dorian, which devastated parts of the Bahamas, did not make landfall in Florida. But Duke said it had to mobilize 7,800 employees and contractors to be able to restore power if the hurricane barreled into the state, as had been initially predicted.
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