23 Quotes by Bill Swank

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.

We're looking at it as an investment on our part.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.