Florida Power & Light conspired against solar power

Rooftop solar, while critical to fighting climate change, is a threat to the traditional utility business model. So Florida Power & Light did something 

about it. HERE

Florida Stop the Ppower Shutoffs

Even though the pandemic continues, Florida utilities are set to resume power shutoffs — which they paused at the beginning of the pandemic — threatening the health of one million Floridians. Earthjustice responded by filing an emergency petition to the Florida Public Service Commission (PSC), which regulates the state’s utilities, requesting action to stop the disconnections and protect Florida families during the pandemic. Shutting power off for people who have lost income because of COVID-19 does not serve the public interest. We might be able to stop this ill-advised decision — but we’ll need your help. 

The PSC is taking public comment on our petition, and we need to show overwhelming opposition to continued utility disconnections. HERE

Zombie alert for Lake Worth

here

Florida GOP Greg Steube Of Sarasota Wants To Cut Down Our Trees

The Legislature has tried to prevent cities and counties from adopting new regulations. 

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 City and county rules protecting trees are the next battleground in the rolling fight between local governments and the Florida Legislature.

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Sen. Greg Steube, of Sarasota,arguably the most right-wing member of the state Legislature is taking aim at tree ordinances, saying rules limiting the trimming and removal of trees infringe on property rights. Source 
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Katie Edwards, a Democrat from Plantation is also in on it. 
here

Are these guys getting paid by the power companies? 

FPL Pollutes Florida's Water And Wants Us To Pay For Cleanup

Florida Power & Light Co. wants customers to pay for a $200 million-plus cleanup of groundwater contamination from its Turkey Point nuclear plant’s cooling canals, and is asking regulators to approve its request. here

Miami's Radioactive Drinking Water

Florida Power & Light plans to inject their radioactive waste 3,000 feet underground, just below the aquifers where South Florida gets its drinking water. here

Dems Join Florida Frackers

The Florida Senate gave preliminary approval Friday to a bill sought by Florida Power & Light to allow the company to charge customers for investments in natural gas fracking operations in other states. 

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Supporters of the bill

 Democratic Leader Oscar Braynon of Miami and incoming Senate Democratic Leader Jeff Clemens of Lake Worth.

Other Dems voting for the bill in committee with Braynon and Clemens were Sens. Lauren Book of Plantation, Perry Thurston of Fort Lauderdale, and Bill Montford of Tallahassee. here

Florida INC Culture Of Corruption

Florida Power & Light. was so intent on influencing the implementation of a constitutional amendment expanding solar installation in Florida, it drafted legislation designed to create new requirements for homeowners and businesses that install rooftop solar and sent it to the legislator who was authoring the language. here

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The proposal, HB 1351 by Florida Fracker Ray Rodrigues, was passed Wednesday by the House Ways and Means Committee, it contains sections that include verbatim language supplied by NextEra Energy, the parent company of Florida Power & Light.

Florida INC. Approves FPL Hand Job

A House committee overlooked opposition by residential and commercial utility customers Tuesday and approved a proposal sought by Florida Power & Light to allow the company to expand its rate base by charging customers for investments in natural gas fracking operations in other states. here

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The bill, HB 1043 is by Florida GOP 

Rep. Jason Brodeur of Sanford.

FPL Customers About To Take It Deep

The Florida House Subcommittee on Energy and Utilities on Tuesday will hear the proposal sought by Florida Power & Light to allow the company to expand its rate base by charging customers for investments in natural gas fracking operations in other states. here

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 If the bill is approved, It would be the first time in the nation that a utility company would be allowed to shift the risk of an exploratory drilling to customers, instead of shareholders, without determining whether the investment is prudent.

Florida's Culture Of Corruption: Frank Artiles

Florida Power & Light's paid nearly $2,000 in flights, food and beverage for Florida GOP Sen. Frank Artiles to travel to Daytona Beach and Disney's Epcot theme park last month, an expense the senator reported late Monday on his political committee's web site only after questions by the Miami Herald. He was invited by FPL parent company, NextEra, to wave the green flag at the ceremonial start of the NASCAR event on Feb. 24. The next day, he was seen at Epcot, touring the theme parks' Drinking Around the World Showcase with FPL lobbyist and others.

here

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 He is chairman of the Senate's Energy, Communications 

and Public Utilities Committee.

Florida's Culture Of Corruption: Florida GOP

The state’s largest electric utility is pushing two proposals — put on the fast track by Republican leaders — that amount to end-runs around recent court rulings, drawing outrage from consumer groups and large utility customers. here and here

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The Senate Communications, Energy and Public Utilities Committee unanimously approved both measures Tuesday. 

Florida Supreme Court: Florida INC.Eexceeded Their Authority

In a rebuke to Florida Power & Light, the Florida Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that state regulators exceeded their authority when they allowed the company to charge customers for its speculative investment into an Oklahoma-based fracking company. here

What is polluting Biscayne National Park?

Florida INC. Radioactive Biscayne Bay

The discovery of dirty water contaminated by tritium leaking into Biscayne Bay from the cooling canals at the Turkey Point nuclear plant is the clearest sign yet that Florida INC. doesn't give a shit about us. here

Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/editorials/article64864317.html#storylink=cpy

Florida Utility Companies Pour $1.9 Million Into Anti-Solar Group

Utility companies operating in Florida have donated more than $1.9 million to the misleadingly named 

Consumers for Smart Solar

 a political action committee set up to oppose a ballot initiative that would allow for third-party sales of rooftop 
solar energy.

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Florida Power and Light  $595,000

 Tampa Electric Company $556,000

 Duke Energy $355,000

Gulf Power Company $380,000

PowerSouth Energy Cooperative $30,000

here

Florida Power And Light Customers About To Take It Deep, Again!

Florida Power and Light is about to rack up another giant bill that customers 

will end up paying for. 

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FPL got state approval to charge customers for more than $241 million in “advanced recovery costs” for two more nuclear reactors at the company’s aging Turkey Point plant in Miami.

Now comes news that FPL is trying to get customers to foot the bill for another expensive, dubious project — a new power plant near Lake Okeechobee that’s projected to cost a whopping $1.2-billion.

A billion here, a billion there, and we end up paying the costs every month for the rest of our lives. The price tags are so high, our children and 
our grandchildren will still be paying.

The kicker is that the power plant that FPL wants to build near Lake Okeechobee is not even necessary. here 

Florida's Corporate Service Commission's Nuclear Power Fleecing

State utility regulators approved a request by Florida Power & Light to charge customers $34.2 million for a pair of nuclear reactors in Miami-Dade County. The Southern Alliance for Clean Energy, a non-profit organization that seeks clean energy solutions to climate change, slammed the regulators' decision.

“Once again the financial interests of the public took a backseat to a big power company's excessive speculation favoring utility shareholders. While FPL spends hundreds of thousands of dollars crowing about the lack of consumer protections for a proposed solar ballot initiative, they and their political friends are silent about the lack of consumer protections in this nuclear power fleecing."

Stephen Smith, the organization's executive director
here

Florida's Corporate Service Commission Approves Fracking

Florida Power & Light customers are suddenly investors in fracking, whether they want to be or not. On Thursday, the state's (Corporate) Public Service Commission, long the lapdogs of utilities, approved the company's request to invest up to $500 million annually in this potentially risky business. here

To Florida Power & Light customers who vote GOP and others who don't vote, we got your BACK. Orders your free tube of lube.

freelube@yborcitystogie.com

Florida's Culture Of Corruption: In-group and Out-group

Anyone who has attempted to expand the rooftop solar industry has been ostracized. The reason, Florida’s largest utilities have invested heavily in state political campaigns to fend off competition. 

Campaign records show utility companies have sunk $12 million into the campaigns of state lawmakers since 2010.

That money comes from the bills paid by customers of the state’s four largest utilities — Duke Energy, Gulf Power, Florida Power & Light and Tampa Electric.

The recipient of the most utility money since 2010 is Gov. Rick Scott’s 2014 reelection campaign, which took in more than$1.1 million. here