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FL-14

Kathy Castor

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Legislative Record

  • Opposed keeping expensive, inefficient fossil fuel plants online 

  • Opposed giving priority to electricity generated by expensive fossil fuels 

  • Opposed slashing energy efficiency programs that save ratepayers hundreds 

  • Opposed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act which repealed groundbreaking clean energy policies, hiking energy bills and giving tax breaks to data centers

District-Level Data

  • Rep. Castor opposed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which is projected to: 

    • increase Floridians’ household energy costs by approximately $290 per year 

    • increase Floridians’ household electricity costs by 9.6% by 2035 

    • impose $25 billion in cumulative household energy costs in Florida through 2034 

    • and reduce state GDP by $8.3 billion while eliminating approximately 59,000 jobs.


Sources

  1. Assessing Impacts Of The House “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” On U.S. Energy Costs, Jobs, Health, Emissions 

  2. Congressional ‘grid reliability’ bill is like duct tape on a cracked dam 

  3. House passes bill to fast-track dispatchable generation interconnection 

  4. House Appropriations Committee Democrats, Fact Sheet, 7/13/2025