The JEA board set the stage Tuesday for a vote next month to change electric rates, with staff expecting the changes to save customers $100 million over the next eight years and avoid rate increases for the next five years. “It would lower bills for all customers today,” Chief Financial Officer Melissa Dykes told board members at their Tuesday meeting. Every JEA electric customer would see a rate reduction in the coming months, but commercial customers would see larger drops in rates, according to an outline of the proposal. read more