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Florida's State Supreme Court justices questioned the Public Service Commission and FPL over a 2021 rate settlement that expanded FPL's SolarTogether solar program. Environmental activists and consumer groups challenged the program expansion, arguing that solar participants…
“before we charge down the path of saying that these fossil-based resources are the only way”
“The Commission's disappointing business-as-usual approach allows power companies to ignore lowest-cost resources like energy efficiency to meet demand. It does little to nothing to help hard-working families, and perpetuates Florida's history of unaffordable and escalating power bills.”
“It's not black and white. I think it's probably important to distinguish between the popularity and the benefits of growing the clean energy economy from ... some of the politics and specific policies of how you get there.”
“It's not black and white. I think it's probably important to distinguish between the popularity and the benefits of growing the clean energy economy from ... some of the politics and specific policies of how you get there.”
A Florida House subcommittee advanced HB 741, a bill to reduce utility payments to rooftop solar owners, after hearing testimony from two former PSC chairs on opposite sides. Leon Jacobs, president of the board of the…
“FPL is realizing they got a lot of customers that want solar and they like the design of the program whether they are municipal customers, businesses or residential”
“While Commissioner Nikki Fried talks a good game about climate change, our review of actual accomplishments do not add up to the rhetoric”
“While Commissioner Nikki Fried talks a good game about climate change, our review of actual accomplishments do not add up to the rhetoric”
Florida Republican legislative leaders Senate President Wilton Simpson and House Speaker Chris Sprowls have made sea level rise and flooding a priority, but their approach remains piecemeal and lacks commitment to addressing root causes like carbon…
A Politico investigation examines Duke Energy Florida's $1 billion solar program settlement negotiated with Walmart and two solar advocacy groups, including SACE, that critics argue excludes residential consumers from the decision-making process. The Florida Public Service…
“Maybe in 15 years from now, if the growth continues, this might be an interesting conversation to have. But in the near term this is not a broken system that needs intervention by the Public Service Commission or the heavy hand of the monopoly utilities trying to manipulate customer choice.”
“To ignore the issue and call it a hoax when in fact Republican leaders in Florida are beginning to broach the issue seems very out of step”
