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ORDER NO. PSC -2020 -0293 -AS -EI DOCKET NOS. 20200067 -EI, 20200069 -EI, 20200070-EI,20200071-EI,20200092-EI PAGE 3 FINAL ORDER APPROVING SETTLEMENT AGREEMENTS SUBMITTED BY GULF POWER COMPANY FLORIDA POWER & LIGHT COMPANY DUKE ENERGY FLORIDA, LLC, AND TAMPA ELECTRIC COMPANY AND FINAL ORDER APPROVING TAMPA ELECTRIC COMPANY'S MOTION TO APPROVE REVISED TARIFF BY THE COMMISSION: Background Section 366.96(3), Florida Statutes (F.S.), requires each public utility to file a transmission and distribution storm protection plan (SPP) that covers the immediate 10 -year planning period, and explains the systematic approach the utility will follow to achieve the objectives of reducing restoration costs and outage times associated with extreme weather events and enhancing reliability. Pursuant to Section 366.96(5) and (6), F.S., every three years the Florida Public Service Commission (Commission) is required to determine whether it is in the public interest to approve, approve with modification, or deny each utility's transmission and distribution storm protection plan filed in accordance with Commission Rule 25-6.030, Florida Administrative Code (F.A.C.). In addition, Section 366.96(7), F.S., requires us to conduct a proceeding, to be referred to as the storm protection plan cost recovery clause (SPPCRC), to determine a utility's prudently incurred plan costs and allow the utility to recover such costs through a charge separate and apart from its base rates in accordance with Rule 25-6.031, F.A.C. The following dockets were opened to address the SPPs for each of the electric utilities that are subject to the requirements of Section 366.96, F.S.: • Docket No. 20200067 -EI — Tampa Electric Company (TECO) SPP docket • Docket No. 20200068 -EI — Florida Public Utilities Company (FPUC) SPP docket • Docket No. 20200069 -EI — Duke Energy Florida, LLC (DEF) SPP docket • Docket No. 20200070 -EI — Gulf Power Company (Gulf) SPP docket • Docket No. 20200071 -EI — Florida Power & Light Company (FPL) SPP docket The FPUC SPP docket was closed by Order No. PSC -2020 -0097 -PCO -EI, issued on April 6, 2020; the remaining dockets were consolidated for the hearing. The Office of Public Counsel (OPC), Walmart Inc. (Walmart), and Florida Industrial Power Users Group (FIPUG) were granted intervention in the TECO, DEF, Gulf, and FPL SPP dockets. White Springs Agricultural Chemicals, Inc. d/b/a PCS Phosphate — White Springs (PCS) was granted intervention in DEF's SPP docket. Docket No. 20200092 -EI (SPPCRC docket) was opened to address the SPPCRC for the utilities that submitted SPPs. OPC, Walmart, PCS, and FIPUG were also granted intervention in the SPPCRC docket. Gulf, FPL, DEF, and TECO entered into Settlement Agreements prior to the administrative hearing. Accordingly, we held an administrative hearing on August 10, 2020, to Z-3