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The Wall Street Journal ($): Who is the world’s largest operator of wind and solar farms? It’s also America’s most valuable power company. Still stumped? It’s by design. “That is a marketing problem…that we foster intentionally,” Michael O’Sullivan, NextEra Energy Inc.’s head of renewable development, told University of Notre Dame students in 2015. NextEra has […]
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PV Magazine: While power sector holdouts such as FirstEnergy get headlines by pushing for disingenuous regulatory changes in a vain attempt to make the future look like the past, many U.S. power companies are seeing the light in the low and predictable costs of large-scale wind and solar. One of the leaders in this regard […]
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S&P Global Market Intelligence ($): With incentives retained in the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act supporting the development of renewable energy, U.S. electric utilities and their competitive energy arms are moving ahead with certainty on planned solar investments to take advantage of the federal solar investment tax credit, or ITC, before it drops permanently to […]
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Blazing a Trail Into the New Energy Economy
The best-performing electricity utility in the U.S. is also the world’s biggest installer of renewables. NextEra Energy Inc., a major national electricity provider with 47 gigawatts (GW) of capacity focuses on providing long-term shareholder value through investment in clean energy—and is succeeding in its strategy. The company likes to highlight that it is the world’s […]
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Renew Economy: The best-performing electricity utility in the USA is also the world’s biggest installer of renewables. NextEra Energy Inc. is a major American electricity generator with 47 GW of capacity and is focused on providing long-term shareholder value through investment in clean energy. The company likes to highlight that it is the world’s largest […]
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Leaders and Laggards Emerge; US$185 Billion in Lost Shareholder Value Seen Among Utilities Failing to Keep Pace; Solar and Wind Generation ‘Can Now Consistently Outbid Fossil-Fuel-Based Generation’
Oct. 4, 2017 (IEEFA) — The Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA) published a report today that describes how the rise of renewable energy is disrupting electricity markets worldwide. The report, “Global Electricity Utilities in Transition: Leaders and Laggards: 11 Case Studies,” documents a pace of change in Asia, Europe, the Americas and […]
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Paul Monies for the Oklahoma City Oklahoman: Two wind farm companies have sued the town of Hinton, claiming a recently passed ordinance targeting wind turbines outside the town limits was illegally enacted. Minco Wind IV LLC and Minco Wind V LLC, affiliates of NextEra Energy Resources LLC, said the town’s Jan. 17 ordinance calling their […]
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John Funk for the Cleveland Plain Dealer: The Northeast Ohio Public Energy Council, or NOPEC, has approved a three-year contract with NextEra Energy Services Ohio, a subsidiary of Florida-based NextEra Energy Resources, to supply power to some 500,000 Northeast Ohio consumers and small businesses. NOPEC made this decision10 days after current supplier FirstEnergy Solutions canceled […]
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Mark Chediak for Bloomberg News: Analysts had been skeptical about the Hawaiian Electric takeover gaining state approval given that Governor David Ige, a Democrat, had questioned NextEra’s commitment to the state’s goal of reaching 100 percent renewable power by 2045. On June 29, Ige appointed Thomas Gorak as commissioner, whom analysts said could be more […]
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The Hawaii Consumer Advocate, which is taking part in the regulatory review of NextEra Energy Inc.’s proposed $4.3 billion acquisition of Hawaiian Electric Co., reiterated its opposition to the deal, according to public documents. In its pre-hearing brief filed with the Hawaii Public Utilities Commission this week, the Consumer Advocate, which has been opposed to […]
IEEFA Update: In U.S. Utility NextEra, a Template for Electricity-Generation Transition
Blazing a Trail Into the New Energy Economy
The best-performing electricity utility in the U.S. is also the world’s biggest installer of renewables. NextEra Energy Inc., a major national electricity provider with 47 gigawatts (GW) of capacity focuses on providing long-term shareholder value through investment in clean energy—and is succeeding in its strategy. The company likes to highlight that it is the world’s […]