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A Tampa Bay Times article covering the 2020 Democratic presidential primary campaign efforts in Florida mentions that Elizabeth Warren's campaign recruited staff from activist organizations including the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy. The article describes how…
“The Southern Alliance for Clean Energy disagrees with FPL's assessment that large-scale installations are 'generally not yet cost effective in FPL's service area' particularly as utility-scale solar has proven to be cost effective in other states and utility territories”
A letter to the editor from FPL's CEO Eric Silagy criticizes the Tampa Bay Times' energy coverage as misleading and politically biased. Silagy defends FPL's energy-efficiency programs and dismisses SACE as an out-of-state lobbying group promoting…
“the more money (utilities) spend, the more money they make”
“Our first concern is for the more than one million people that live within a 50-mile radius of the St Lucie Unit 2 reactor. While I appreciate that FPL is highly motivated to return the reactor to service for financial reasons, safety must be their highest priority.”
“Florida lacks leadership from policymakers who — due to the influence of big utilities — stop consumers from harnessing the sun on the roofs of homes and businesses”
“Duke Energy's hidden agenda in attacking solar net-metering policy is the simple fact that customer-owned solar generation challenges their central utility business model”
“Floridians will welcome the competition. Florida lawmakers have allowed energy policy to lock out solar as a resource.”
“We have the solutions. Whether we're dealing with pollution coming from wastewater or reducing greenhouse gas emissions, we have clean technology solutions to fix the problems and in the process, we can create a whole new economy.”
“Florida lawmakers should be embarrassed to let big power companies lock out a market for solar in the Sunshine State. We squander this God-given resource so utilities can keep out competition. Politicians are complicit in this crime.”
“you have a commission that wants to figure it out. The commission here doesn't want to tell the utilities to do it. But if you order the utilities to do it, they will figure out how to do it in a cost-effective manner.”
“What's outrageous is we can do so much better reducing people's energy bills by investing in cost-effective energy efficiency. To do that, we need to look at utility regulation that rewards construction of power plants. Past decisionmaking brought us this expensive attempt to bring on nuclear power. Until we realign the incentives, we will continue to get expensive power.”
“Solar hot water has always been the low-hanging fruit. People pay a significant amount of their electric bill to heat water.”
“The most significant piece of what the president did yesterday was to signal in a very clear and unequivocable way to continue to use the Clean Air Act to regulate the massive amounts of carbon pollution. While Florida is not dominated by coal plants, there are a number of coal plants that will be affected by this rule.”
“We welcome the governor's signature on this modest bill, which is an important step in reigning in unbridled utility access to consumers' wallets”
