The state Office of Public Counsel, which is designated by law to represent consumers, opposed a newly proposed Florida Power & Light rate settlement Thursday, saying it would increase FPL’s revenues by an “unconscionable” amount.

The Office of Public Counsel took the stance after FPL and numerous groups and businesses filed the proposed settlement Wednesday at the Florida Public Service Commission.

The proposed settlement, which the commission will consider this fall, scaled back increases FPL had sought in a base-rate proposal filed in February.

But in a two-page letter Thursday, Public Counsel Walt Trierweiler described the groups and businesses that agreed to the settlement as a “minority coalition of very large customers” and said the “majority of FPL’s customers will see significa

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