FPL Builds Third New Microgrid This Year As Florida Power and Light (FPL) builds its third microgrid this year, the FPL Evolution Hub, the company says it is learning more about microgrid technology, which could hold significant benefits for reliability during storms. The company is exploring new, and what it describes as possibly better, designs … Continue reading #FPL Builds Third New Microgrid This Year
Pensacola postpones idea of owning its own energy utility — for now. Workshop planned. Discussion on whether the city of Pensacola should launch a feasibility study to potentially create its own energy utility has been pushed back again, with support split from business and industry leaders and community members on whether it is a good … Continue reading #Pensacola postpones idea of owning its own energy utility — for now
Florida PSC approves Tampa Electric’s Durrance solar project The Florida Public Service Commission (PSC) approved Tampa Electric’s 60-megawatt (MW) Durrance solar project in Polk County. This is Tampa Electric’s fourth phase of solar expansion, part of an effort that has brought nine projects totaling more than 572 megawatts (MW) online between 2018 and 2020. This … Continue reading #Florida PSC approves #Tampa_Electric ’s Durrance solar project
Shop for electricity? Florida voters could decide in 2020. TALLAHASSEE A petition for a ballot measure that could potentially reinvent Florida’s electric utility industry is headed to the Florida Supreme Court. The petition reached the threshold of 76,632 signatures required to be reviewed by Attorney General Ashley Moody and soon after, Florida’s highest court, according … Continue reading Shop for electricity? #Florida voters could decide in 2020.
Ballot proposal would revamp utility industry A political committee has spent nearly $400,000 in recent months and submitted 33,863 valid petition signatures as it tries to get a measure on the 2020 ballot that would revamp Florida’s electric utility industry. The proposal, backed by a committee called Citizens for Energy Choices, calls for wholesale and … Continue reading Ballot proposal would revamp utility industry
Tropical Storm Michael could hit Florida Gulf Coast as a Category 2 hurricane An intensifying storm system that became Tropical Storm Michael Sunday afternoon is setting its sights on the northern Gulf Coast, and forecasters say it could be a Category 2 hurricane when it makes landfall. “In fact, nearly every piece of intensity guidance … Continue reading Tropical Storm #Michael could hit Florida Gulf Coast as a #Category_2 #hurricane
How a Florida Utility Became the Global King of Green Power Who is the world’s largest operator of wind and solar farms? It’s also America’s most valuable power company. Still stumped? It’s by design. “That is a marketing problem…that we foster intentionally,” Michael O’Sullivan, NextEra Energy Inc.’s head of renewable development, told University of Notre … Continue reading How a #Florida Utility Became the Global King of Green Power #NextEra
Federal commission denies wind farm developer’s request Waiver would have allowed for speedy equipment site relocation The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has denied a request from the developer behind wind turbines proposed for Cass and Miami counties that would have allowed it to easily change where it connects with an electric transmission grid. The Feb. … Continue reading Federal commission denies wind farm developer’s request
FPL unveils solar power plus energy storage system Florida Power & Light Co. unveiled a new solar-plus-storage system to fully integrate battery technology with a solar power plant in a way that increases the plant’s overall energy output. By incorporating this new technology into the FPL Citrus Solar Energy Center, a solar power plant that … Continue reading #FPL unveils solar power plus energy storage system
It’s time to disrupt Florida’s electricity industry It’s time to disrupt Florida’s electricity industry When you think about utilities – the energy that powers our homes and businesses – ‘disruption’ is probably the last word you’d think of as a positive. Yet disruption is exactly what Florida’s energy marketplace needs. Competition breeds innovation. When innovators … Continue reading It’s time to disrupt Florida’s electricity industry
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