Even some environmental advocates say the change is fair and necessary because of the fast rate of rooftop solar development in that state. "We're not making a connection" between the reports and Silagy's retirement, NextEra CEO John Ketchum said on the earnings call. In all, the centerproduces enough electricity for 750,000 homes and businesses. Silagy, CEO since 2014, will depart the company in April. Discover Your Options Lights out? On Oct. 8, Bradleys legislative aide Katie Heffley emailed Holley with the subject line: Net Metering Bill., Good afternoon, Hope youre doing well, she said. So they opted instead for Mayor Stoddards electoral defeat and changing the makeup of the board, according to a 2018 memo from Dan Newman, a Matrix contractor who was similarly involved in the campaign against Rodrguez. Rooftop solar in Florida expanded slowly until 2018 when the Florida Public Service Commission allowed electricity customers to lease solar systems with little or no upfront costs. Terry Dunn wanted to examine why Alabama Power charged some of the highest rates in the country. But Florida Power & Light is arguing rooftop solar could cost Florida utilities about $700 million between 2019 and 2025, according to documents submitted to the Florida Public Service Commission. NeitherFPL executives nor the consultants identified in the secret records have been accused of wrongdoing in that investigation. "I want you to make his life a living hell seriously," Silagy wrote in a 2019 email to two of his vice-presidents about one of the Democratic state senators whose 2020 electoral contest was complicated by a spoiler candidate. Perkins has alleged in a lawsuit that Pitts led a rogue group of Matrix employees who undertook work on FPL's behalf that he only learned about after Pitts departed work worth millions in fees. Its parent company had initiated an investigation of related media reports there. In Perkins telling, he was getting ready to hand over leadership of Matrix in December 2020 when Pitts surprised him by leaving the firm, taking three employees as well as most of Matrixs Florida-based clients with him to launch Canopy. A note of gratitude to our friends at the Orlando Sentinel and Floodlight News, with whom we have worked in partnership to report our stories. small-scale solar capacity in the state. Bradley said she is open to discussing alternative models for her bill, including a system in use in the Carolinas to compensate rooftop solar customers who provide extra power for the grid when it is most needed, during peak hours. Please provide us with the Personal Identification Number (PIN) that you were given for a co-browse session with our representative. The state senator went on to lose re-election by six votes. You always have to keep in mind what matters most is the rate (of efficiency).. NextEra Energy said its political committee did not make its contribution to Bradleys campaign with an expectation of favor.. Currently, 5,779,202 consumers receive their electricity from the company. Namely,how "clean" can, or should, an energy system be to make inroads in tacklingclimate change as the urgency heightens? And additional reporting since last year has made it clear the leakedMatrix records contain legitimate information. and help keep the future of New Times, Use of this website constitutes acceptance of our. Theyve got the lobbying power, and weve got the people power.. Heffley suggested that he could send it via email today or we will be at the Capitol next week., Holley declined to provide an electronic version and offered to drop it off in person the following week. I think they are doing their part. Its parent company, NextEra Energy, has commissioned two separate investigations - one internal, one by an outside law firm - following reporting by Florida newspapers, the non-profit news outlet Floodlight and NPR. Its CEO, Mark Crosswhite, stepped down in December. The utility company also contributes to many Democrats and to the Florida Democratic Party. DeSantis, who is attempting to build a populist profile ahead of a presidential run in 2024,has turned on FPL, having used his veto pen earlier this year to kill one of the utility's highest legislative priorities a controversial bill that would have limited the growth of the residential rooftop solar industryin Florida. But utility experts have testified to the Florida Public Service Commission that rooftop solar in the state could grow at a rate of 39 percent a year until 2025 if Floridas current net metering system is left in place. A Birmingham mayor who employed Matrix got 15 years for bribery, conspiracy and fraud. According to reporting by the Orlando Sentinel, Florida Power & Light executives have been tied to a series of dark-money nonprofits, one of which figures prominently in the Miami-Dade state attorneys investigation into a scandal involving a ghost Senate candidate. One-tenth of 1percent of the power comes from oil. The proposed legislation could seriously curtail that growth. Under Floridas current arrangement, homes and businesses that generate less than 2 megawatts of solar power can sell the excess back to their utility in exchange for a bill credit of 11 cents per kWh. Once we realize the large emitters are large emitters because theyre providing service of great magnitude, and we look at it and we see its so efficient, we have our answer, Patino-Echeverri said. All of that work was a closely held secret until recently. "Based on information in our possession, we believe that FPL would not be found liable for any of the Florida Campaign finance law violations as alleged in the media articles," Ketchum said. Landlords would be able to sell cheap rooftop solar power directly to their tenants bypassing FPL and its monopoly on electricity. This story is a collaboration with Floodlight. "I think it took a toll," Ketchum said Wednesday of the multiple crises. Customer Support. At least its not coal., The intent of the report was to highlight coal and the negative of coal and offer information that may be pertinent to those who live near the plants, Hope said. He added thatcarbon dioxide is emitted from burning natural gas, which isa fossil fuel, andis being created whether theyre scrubbing or storing it.. For years, Florida Power & Light has been one of the largest contributors to legislative Florida political campaigns. In the Northeast corner of the state, a young, first-termRepublican mayor in Jacksonville was eager to solicit proposals to privatize city services none more enticing than the city's century-old municipal utility, JEA, one of the largest public electric, water and sewer utilities in the United States and a prize FPL had long sought. The nuclear project was part of what the group deemed a "record of failure," rhetoric that borea remarkable similarity to the talking points later used by the mayor and privatization supporters to justify selling JEA. FPLs CEO Silagy in a recent interview denied knowing about or participating in the scheme against Rodrguez but said that Matrix had done good work for his company. Do you need this bus to transport this many people, and do you need it to be this large? she asked hypothetically. He is a former federal prosecutor with experience in public corruption cases.. As you may know, Gera is NextEra Energys Vice President and Chief Litigation Officer. One person affiliated with Grow United is Abbie MacIver, who formerly worked for Energy Fairness, a group that encourages policymakers to consider the cost of energy choices, as well as their benefits. Last year, McClure sent a letter to state regulators at the Florida Public Service Commission citing the result and urging it to update its net-metering rule. Drop a line athmorse@pbpost.com, call 561-820-4833 or follow her on Twitter@mannahhorse. Its also up to us to push them more. The money was allegedly funneled through a network of tax-exempt nonprofits that obscured its origin. But wherever the pair went, indictments often followed. In 2020,the plant generated 19.7 million megawatt hours of energy and had an emissions rate of 371.3 kilograms of carbon dioxide per megawatt hour. We took a 1960s-gas guzzling Cadillac and we replaced it with a Ford Focus hybrid, McGrath said. President and CEO of Florida Power & Light Eric Silagy speaks to the media after FPL imploded its last Florida . Ive also.ccd Gera Peoples on this note. Can I bring it to you all later today? he wrote. Records obtained by Floodlight and the Orlando Sentinel show that Matrix consulted for FPL, as well as another Florida company, Gulf Power, and Alabama Power. Hannah Morse covers consumer issues for The Palm Beach Post. Political editor Emily L. Mahoney will send you a rundown on local, state and national politics coverage every Thursday. The sex worker later testified the allegations were untrue, and that she had been paid by a Birmingham businessman to make them. The West County Energy Centeruses three combined-cycle generating units thatburnnatural gas in a turbine much like a jet engine and in turn usesthat exhaust to make a second power source of steam. There are reasons to prefer alternatives that are not fossil-fuel intensive. I want you to make his life a living hell seriously, FPLs CEO Eric Silagy wrote in a 2019 email to two of his vice-presidents about state Senator Jos Javier Rodrguez, who proposed the legislation. Perkins has repeatedly denied leaking records, though he has verified the authenticity of numerous records underlying recent stories by the Times-Union, Orlando Sentinel and Floodlight, a nonprofit investigative news outlet. During an investigation by this newspaper, as well as the Sentinel and Floodlight, FPL became at least vaguely threatening about our decision to continue reporting. But in the years that followed, FPL would loosen the grip of its dependence on oil-powered plants, including demolishing a 1960s-era Riviera Beach oil plant, with its memorable red-and-white smokestacks, and rebuilding it in 2014 as a natural gas plant. Emails show that Bradleys staff followed up with Florida Power & Light after that discussion. Silagy is to be replaced by Armando Pimentel, a former senior executive at NextEra Energy. Two decades ago, the company was using more than40 million barrels of oil, the most of any electric utility, McGrath said. Later that year, Floridianswould narrowly elect Ron DeSantis governor, the utility's preferred governing partner. One of Matrixs oldest clients is Alabama Power, which employed Perkins personal consulting firm as early as 1999. Howard Crystal, an attorney for the environmental group Center for Biological Diversity, said that US utilities are allowed monopoly power because they are supposed to expand the public interest. I think we see in the trend overall nationally is were not moving fast enough toward these cleaner sources as we clearly need to, she said. He has denied the allegations. Bradley, who received Florida Power & Lights draft bill, is a first-term senator who is close to Senate leadership and chairs the Community Affairs Committee and the Subcommittee on Congressional Reapportionment. An analyst at Seaport Global, a capital-markets firm, said recent reporting on FPL has "made us reassess FPL's risks" and that the research firm has "grown uncomfortable" with the "growing media scrutiny of FPLs lobbying practices against distributed solar and retail choice (deregulation), among others. Following up right after Ketchum's comments, Silagy said that his predecessors had held their roles for about a decade each, and that gearing up for another multi-year rate case with state regulators would mean he would have to stay until 2026. He noted that there is never a "perfect time" to leave. The largest city served by the supplier is Jacksonville, but the company also provides electricity to 243 cities in Florida. In 2018, Perkins Communications received at least $1.49m from Alabama Power, a leaked contract shows. And for that reason money spent in the present is almost always justified by the potential future: An election cycle might cost an investor-owned utility millions to meaningfully influence, but failing to do so could cost billions later. Once he left, Pitts said Perkins smeared him to clients in an attempt to extort millions. NPR media correspondent David Folkenflik reported this story with Mario Ariza of Floodlight, a nonprofit newsroom that investigates the powerful interests stalling climate action. Ron DeSantis, approved FPLs rate hike, raising Floridians monthly bills by over $1.5 billion in the next few years with annual increases through 2025, while increasing FPLs profits. And a former regional administrator for the EPA who did business with Pitts pleaded guilty to violating state ethics law multiple times. FPL has a long history of spending to campaign against Crist, spending up to $1 million against Crists bid for governor in 2006 after contributing $225,000 to Crists opponent in the Republican primary the largest donation FPL had ever made at the time. We'll get them back on Check the FPL Power Tracker for updates on any outages in your area or report one to us. [But] now we have this incredible corruption and a reversal of that because they are using their advantage to hang on to power and undermine democracy, he said. Too, FPL has not set a goal to reduce its emissions to zero because we believe in setting measurable and achievable goals, McGrath said. FPL | Contact Us We're here to help Please log in so we can help you faster. There were a lot of challenges that we successfully managed," he said. Forgive me for being unserious at a time when companies like Florida Power & Light (FPL)the nation's largest utilitykeep racking up scandals, but it's kind of hard to keep track of the. FPL has already passed the $5.1 million total amount it spent in the 2020 cycle. Going through those tens of thousands ofrecords, he said, alerted him to the extent of work Pitts performed without his knowledge. We need to have the debate, he said. Florida Power & Light is the largest electric utility in the state, serving more than 11 million people across vast swaths of Florida. Under Bradleys bill, net-metering customers whose solar panels deliver energy back to the utility grid would no longer receive credits based on the retail cost of energy, but instead receive credits based on a lower wholesale cost. Soon, Dunn faced attacks in the rightwing press and online, while Matrix-affiliated groups some of which received millions from a non-profit run by a contractor for Alabama Power filed a motion to intervene in the proceedings. Alabama Power still hasnt had a rate case. Under the leadership of Eric Silagy, 54, the company has been tied to allegations of campaign finance violations, media manipulation, and the surveillance of critical journalists. Florida Power & Light argues that arrangement is unfair to customers who dont generate their own power but continue to pay for the costs of maintaining the grid that rooftop solar customers also use. Florida Power & Light, one of the largest utilities in the country, abruptly announced the retirement of its chief executive after a tenure marked by strong financial returns, moves toward. And then apparently, somewhere along the way, Jeff and Joe got sideways, Silagy said. Many of the documents have since been verified by additional reporting, public records or Perkins himself. local news and culture, Alex DeLuca Here is why and how much, Your California Privacy Rights/Privacy Policy. Flight data shows Matrixs planes made more than 130 flights to five states in 2020 alone, frequently crisscrossing the south-eastern US but also traveling as far west as New Mexico. The Matrix saga illustrates the political obstacles policymakers and experts face as they attempt to cut climate pollution from the power sector, one of the biggest greenhouse gas contributors in the US. Added Patino-Echeverri: The No. That cost is based on the avoided cost that the utility would have incurred if it were to install a comparable system. "And we support organizations who had that mission.". I looked at the language. The company says the move was not prompted by recent scandals. Thats not where the story ends, however, or the whole picture. NextEras CEO called net-zero emission targets disingenuous without plans to get to real zero, according to reports. He added that the company would soon challenge the complaint and call for its dismissal. An FPL spokesman, nonetheless, took issue with the Find Energy reportciting concerns over a general legal disclaimer on the website and the use of a misleading statistic of overall emissions rather than the emissions rate. From the beginning, Matrix showed no aversion to unsavory political tactics. Feds Plan to Seize Russian Oligarch's Luxe Fisher Island Properties, Miami Canal Flooded With Turd Water From Contractor-Involved Pipe Break, Collapse of "Let's Go Brandon" Meme Coin Sparks Billion-Dollar Court Battle, Gator Gets in on the Action at Tampa Bay Horse Race, Readers Warn of Traffic, "Bloodsport" Driving After. At the same time, getting to 100% elimination of greenhouse gas emissions for the energy sector is very hard to do with just renewables. "JEA is broken," the group boasted on its website, where it posted Times-Union coverage of the utility's involvement in an over-budget, behind-schedule nuclear project in Georgia. That same year, a consultant told the Jacksonville City Council that taking JEA privatewould "likelyrepresent the largest and most complex" transaction of its kind in the United States. So it's particularly jarring to have seen the facility land on a list of pollutingelectric plants that included plenty of old-school coal power plants. Before the prospect of JEA had even been formally proposed, Matrix employees were planting seeds intended to underminepublic confidence in the Jacksonville agency, potentially as early as 2017. NPR and Floodlight also reported in December that people working at Florida Power & Light's political consulting firm had paid a veteran ABC News freelance producer to try to trip up politicians who took stances opposed to the energy utility's economic interests. The records show that entities controlled by the former Matrix employees, and associated in an internal ledger with FPL, financially backed an intermediary who had arrived in Jacksonville to help set up Fix JEA Now. The email was forwarded on to Silagy,though there is no indication the company seriously entertained Burgess' idea. Run by a former Rick Scott spokesman, Brian Burgess, The Capitolist often focused criticism not on powerful industry players or politicians but on individual journalists at publications like the Miami Herald, Palm Beach Post and Times-Union that had crossed the interests of one of the state's large corporations, like FPL. To work around the independent, traditional media, former Matrix employees took a more direct route to influence the public narrative about Florida Power & Light. With Gulf Power in hand, FPL would serve more than 12 million customers more than half the population of the third largest state in the country. Switching from oil or coal to natural gas is a very important step, but thats not enough, she said, adding that carbon capture, utilization and storage technology must be considerationsto further reduce emissions. In a 2020 email, Burgess wrote a former Matrix employee with an idea they could "cobble together however many millions of dollars it would take to buy ALL the Florida newspapers from Gannett and then we could let most of the clown reporters go, save a fortune, eliminate print, and syndicate content across the entire state.". $2.75 million in tax breaks on speculative green hydrogen, tens of billions of dollars for burying lines, 2018 state senate race in Gainesville, FL, secured a deal to freeze FPL rates in 2005 as Attorney General, opposed FPLs $1.3 billion rate increase in 2009, calling the utility out for raising its rates on Floridians, largest donation FPL had ever made at the time, Utility front groups spending on disinformation advertising. After an early round of reports, NextEra commissioned an internal investigation into the allegations against Silagy and Florida Power & Light in Florida. After more than a decade leading Florida Power & Light (FPL), the state's largest power company, Eric Silagy is retiring. ", "We've heard (FPL parent company NextEra's) management assurances about internal investigations," the analyst,Angie Storozynski, wrote, but "any legal, political or regulatory inquiry into FPLs conduct would be highly damaging to the stock.". Drop a line at hmorse@pbpost.com, call 561-820-4833 or follow her on Twitter @mannahhorse. Media scrutiny of the company's political giving began shortly after the 2020 election, when a trio of spoiler candidates tipped close state senate races toward candidates considered friendly to Florida Power & Light. An organization that acts like a mafia should be treated like one, Stoddard said.In a statement, Newman acknowledged managing the campaign against Stoddard and hiring a private investigator to look into the former mayors personal life. Florida Power & Light denied any wrongdoing related to political campaigns. The sites publisher, Brian Burgess, a former top spokesperson for past Florida governor Rick Scott, also suggested in emails that Matrix should lure prominent Florida journalists to a new site or buy local papers owned by media giant Gannett Company and then lay off most of the clown reporters to inject content into publications without anyone knowing who was pulling the strings. View dataset here. This is a tired tactic that utilities have used to maintain their monopoly grip on electricity markets, said Will Giese, southeast regional director for the Solar Energy Industries Association. An Alabama governor the company worked for was convicted of federal felony corruption charges. The complaint implicated Florida Power & Light in violations of election law due to alleged attempts to obscure the source of political donations. On the outskirts of Wellington, just before 20-Mile Bend, stands a behemoth of a power plant on a site as big as 166 football fields. Alissa Jean Schafer is a research and communications specialist at the Energy and Policy Institute. Rodrguez was ousted from office in the next election. In California, regulators plan to increase fees on rooftop solar customers. Bob Self/Florida Times-Union. FPL has also said an internal investigation ordered by its board of directors cleared the company's employees of any wrongdoing; it has also refused to provide copies of that investigation. Bradley said the bill language emerged after a meeting she had with Holley and other members of the utility industry. Customers at the time were paying some of the highest rates for electricity in the south-east. Any report or suggestion that we had involvement in, financially supported or directed others to support any ghost candidates during the 2020 election cycle is patently false, and we have found absolutely no evidence of any legal wrongdoing by FPL or its employees, McGrath, the Florida Power & Light spokesperson said in response to questions for this story. Dunn lost his 2014 re-election campaign by a 19-point margin to Chip Beeker, a catfish farmer who is still in office. Developing a green hydrogen plant on the site of the former Indiantown coal plant. That is a fairly energy-intensive process in and of itself. She said the support she got from other teams was 'overwhelming. Legislators pass legislation, she said. ABC News cut ties with the producer immediately following that report. The company is making renewable energy investments, including: Patino-Echeverri said the utility industry as a whole is making strides to make its plants more efficient. From a public perception, maybe there is value in highlighting where our emissions come from, Patino-Echeverri said. This plant has been part of the solution.. We simply believe rooftop solar customers should pay the full cost of this investment, McGrath said. That decision catapulted the growth of small-scale solar capacity in the state. More: Solar advocates push for last-minute changes to net metering bills, Solar center: FPL blows up its last coal-fired power plant; announces plans for its newest solar center, Electric bill goes up: Your next Florida Power & Light electric bill is going way up. It's easy to pay your bill, view your energy usage, manage your account and more. There has to be a transition. In his Seeking Rents newsletter, publisher Jason Garcia called this decision: one of the most controversial decisions made in recent years by the PSC, a five-member panel comprised of four DeSantis appointees and one remaining holdover from former Gov. Early in the evening of Nov. 26, 2019, the Tuesday of Thanksgiving week, a political consultant working for utility giant Florida Power & Light sent a pair of confidential documents to an email . The Florida Panhandle is in revolt over bills that some FPL customers claim are double or triple what they were paying under Southern Company's stewardship of Gulf Power. That statement was made before additional rounds of damaging disclosures prompted the investigation by the outside law firm. Source: Orlando Sentinel Florida Power & Light execs worked closely with consultants behind 'ghost' candidate scheme, records reveal | Special Report By JASON GARCIA and ANNIE MARTIN ORLANDO SENTINEL | DEC 02, 2021 AT 9:46 AM Top executives at utility giant Florida Power & Light worked closely with the political consultants who orchestrated a scheme to promote spoiler candidates in three . This article originally appeared on Palm Beach Post: FPL CEO Eric Silagy to retire; Armando Pimentel rejoins company, FPL seeks to raise monthly power bills for residental customers by 10%, FPL CEO Eric Silagy to retire; Armando Pimentel rejoins company, Chicago Mayor Lightfoot ousted; Vallas, Johnson in runoff, King asks Duke and Duchess of Sussex to move out of Frogmore so Prince Andrew can move in, Biden Mocks Marjorie Taylor Greene With 1 Simple Hand Gesture, A Nebraska high-school cheerleader competed on her own after the rest of her squad quit. 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