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Cheers: Northside plant one of world's best
Power Magazine chose JEA as one of the top six best-operated coal-fired power plants in the world.
Florida Times-Union
Energy audits promise savings on energy use
City, county hire energy auditors to squeeze savings from energy use.
Charlotte Sun
The oil industry is brainwashing you
If you eagerly tuned in to the presidential debate Wednesday night then chances are you’ve been brainwashed and you don’t even know it.
Independent Florida Alligator
Kassab: Nuclear fallout in Florida expensive
Welcome to Florida's nuclear Armageddon. You had better hide your wallet.
Orlando Sentinel
Sources of Fuel: Energy Policy On Ice
The Gulf of Mexico and Alaska's Chukchi Sea both illustrate the increasing futility of an energy policy heavily dependent on oil.
Lakeland Ledger
Romano: Still waiting for outrage over nuclear plant advance fee
The scam/hustle/shakedown known as the nuclear cost recovery fee will be argued in front of the Florida Supreme Court today.
Tampa Bay Times
Promoting entrepreneurship will pay off
The Nopetro compressed natural gas fueling station that opened last week is a welcome addition to this community’s commerce.
Tallahassee Democrat
Energy policy on ice
The president and Congress must shape a long-term policy that reduces dependence on the dwindling supply of fossil fuels and facilitates.
Sarasota Herald-Tribune
Promoting entrepreneurship will pay off
The Nopetro compressed natural gas fueling station that opened last week is a welcome addition to this community's commerce.
Tallahassee Democrat
Energy independence is a worthwhile, though difficult, goal
We hope all the work and cost in developing the technology necessary to put a dent in our oil dependency pays off soon.
Highlands Today
Sale of Aqua Utilities would serve customers
The suggested sale of a private utility serving three Pasco neighborhoods brings the potential for consistent, local control to customers.
Tampa Bay Times
Solar promise
It’s good news that plans are moving ahead to build a solar farm in the county just west of Leon County, starting late next year.
Tallahassee Democrat
GRU's options
The 100-megawatt biomass plant is nearly complete, and Gainesville Regional Utilities is contractually obligated to buy the generator's output.
Gainesville Sun
Recharge the energy initiative
Sarasota city commissioners listened to one citizen after another express passionate support for a clean-energy fund and then voted against it.
Sarasota Herald-Tribune
In the dark on solar
GRU's solar incentive notwithstanding, Florida isn't exactly on the leading edge in maximizing its solar assets.
Gainesville Sun
Recharge the energy initiative
Despite their effort to be fiscally responsible, commissioners' decision to jettison the energy fund may come back to haunt them.
Sarasota Herald-Tribune
Lakeland Electric: Option For Meters Is Smart
Lakeland Electric's decision to allow customers to refuse installation of a smart electric meter makes sense.
Lakeland Ledger

Op Ed

Customers are overwhelmed by the giant utilities

In May, the Democrat published our My View (“Courts let citizens take on nuclear power giants”) that the state Supreme Court is the only venue...

Tallahassee Democrat
Customers should not pay costs of FPL’s nuclear plant expansion

A misguided state law that...

Palm Beach Post
Invest in Florida's nuclear future

Amid Public Service Commission hearings that continue this week on nuclear cost recovery, it is important to pause and reflect on this component...

Tallahassee Democrat
Diversified mix of energy sources are best

For the next decade, a diversified mix of energy sources will remain strategically important.

News Press of Fort Myers
Florida gives up on renewables

In the Sunshine State, where we lag behind most other states in renewable energy industry job creation, we still do not have a Renewable Energy...

Tallahassee Democrat
Energy evolution

Ah, summertime and with it arrives the stark reality that we now live within altered regional and national climate patterns.

Tallahassee Democrat
Veterans urge support for new energy focus

I chose to fight for my country because I felt a sense of duty to protect the freedoms and liberties that make our nation great.

Tallahassee Democrat

Letter To The Editor

Wind energy tax credit is worth keeping

The largest producer of wind energy in America is based here in Florida. Yes, that’s right. Nextera Energy based in Juno Beach produces enough...

St. Augustine Record
A sure energy-saving idea for Bradenton: Better timing on traffic signals

If the powers that be would...

Bradenton Herald
Bringing in the big guns

The recent ...

Daytona Beach News-Journal
Time To Embrace Solar Power
AARP: FPL Asks Too Much With Proposed 15% Rate Hike
FPL Makes Its Case for Rate Increase
FPL Doesn’t Need Rate Hike
Tapping into Florida’s Energy Potential
FPL’s Rate Request Asks For Too Much
Remembering Lives Lost, or Forever Changed, by BP Oil Spill
Response to Rick Outzen’s BP Settles? Pardon My Laughter post
Florida At Real Risk From Rising Sea Level
Gingrich Wrong About Algae-based Bio-fuels
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Should the Sunshine State do more to support the development of solar energy?
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Holding Florida Utility Customers Hostage to Nuclear’s False Dawn
Rising Seas, Record Temps, Yet Hostility to Science
Surprise Twist on a Theft: Cuba’s Well Comes Up Dry
Remembering Papa Bear
BP Settles? Pardon My Laughter

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