As the City Council mulls Jacksonville’s first $2 billion general fund budget, the local publicly owned utility notes a $2 billion-plus hit of its own. Due to numerous issues since then, the actual total cost escalated to over $36 billion, with JEA’s portion totaling approximately $3.5 billion,” the release continued. As stated, the utility committed to buying power from Vogtle in 2008. Under the agreement with MEAG, JEA will receive 206 MW for 20 years (through 2043 for Unit 3 and 2044 for Unit 4). But JEA said this year it “expects to continue to offer the lowest overall utility costs among major cities across Florida.”