FPL

FPL seeks to cut bills in '09, raise them in '10

Proposed base-rate hike could mean higher costs in 2010 cycle BY SCOTT BLAKE • FLORIDA TODAY • November 18, 2008 After telling customers to expect a more than $8 per month increase on their electric bills in 2009, Florida Power...

6 ways to save on your power bill

BY JIM WAYMER • FLORIDA TODAY • November 18, 2008 First, know thy house Energy experts recommend getting an audit to find out how and where you use the most power. Florida households each could save about $108 a year by...

FACTBOX-Financial crisis hits global energy investment

Nov 18 (Reuters) - Petro-Canada defers construction of an upgrader for its C$21 billion ($17 billion) Fort Hills oil sands project. Harvest Energy Trust defers C$2 billion ($1.6 billion) expansion of Come By Chance refinery in...

Credit crunch, lower natural gas, transmission congestion put brakes on wind power

When investor Boone Pickens put a hold on a huge wind power project in the Texas Panhandle that he had announced in the spring, he wasn’t alone. A number of wind power developers and researchers say the ongoing credit crisis,...

Volunteers circulating petitions

Petitions asking local citizens to oppose private power line construction are being collected this week by volunteers in six Hill Country counties. “We’re going to try to collect as many signatures as we can by Nov. 15; then we...

Commentary: Customers paying for others' mistakes

By The Miami Herald This editorial appeared in The Miami Herald. If a bad employee makes a costly error – whether intentional or not – there isn't much mystery about who will pay for the damage. The company pays, of course, and...

Broward teams up with companies to raise $1 million to promote business

By Doreen Hemlock | South Florida Sun-Sentinel Facing what could be a deep recession, Broward's economic development group has raised $1 million from 20 local companies to help attract new business. The pledges mostly come from...

Interpreting Yesterday's Rally

So I am sitting there, and the market's down around 4%. The S&P had breached the October lows, and I'm loaded with short positions, including a pretty large position in the ultrashort EEV. Then it suddenly occurs to me,...

FPL Wisc. Pt Beach 1 reactor exits refuel

NEW YORK, Nov 14 (Reuters) - FPL Group Inc' s 514-megawatt Unit 1 at the Point Beach nuclear power station in Wisconsin exited a refueling outage and ramped up to 28 percent by early Friday, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory...

Credit crisis shakes up solar land rush

Photo: Todd Woody The land rush to stake prime sites in the Mojave Desert for solar power plants has moved east from California to a state that knows a thing or two about desert dreaming and scheming — Nevada. When Green...

1 2 3 4 5 next »