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FPL Bills Customers for Unbuilt Nuclear Plants But Wants Out of Justifying Need

May 18, 2016 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

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Attorneys for consumers and business and environmental groups are fighting FPL’s request for a waiver from filing an annual analysis about the feasibility of adding two nuclear reactors in South Florida.

Court Deals Blow to FPL’s Already Leaky Nuclear Power Plans at Turkey Point

April 20, 2016 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments

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An appeals court Wednesday overturned a decision by Gov. Rick Scott and the state Cabinet that could have helped clear the way for Florida Power & Light to add two nuclear reactors in Miami-Dade County.

Last Tango For Nuclear:
Atomic Power’s Environmental Ringers

February 8, 2015 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

The nuclear power industry’s attempted revival is relying on a corps of environmental converts to the cause, including Obama climate czar Carol Browner and ex-EPA chief Christine Todd Whitman.

Nuclear Power’s Last Tango: Industry’s Promise Fails to Outrun Crippling Costs

February 1, 2015 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments

If you like the U.S. nuclear power industry, it’s a Michael Jordan-type gallant return. If you don’t like nukes, it’s more of a Gloria Swanson gruesome comeback in Sunset Boulevard.

FPL Posts Profits of $1.35 Billion in 2013, an 8.9% Increase Over 2012, as Rate Hikes Kick In

January 28, 2014 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

Florida Power & Light in July demolished its 1960s-era Port Everglades Power Plant in Hollywood, Fla., to make way for a new, clean energy center powered by natural gas. The demolition of four 350-foot, candy-cane-striped stacks and four 7,500-ton boilers – a staple of South Florida's skyline for more than 50 years – occurred shortly after sunrise, launching a new era for FPL customers and South Florida. (FPL)

FPL serves virtually all residential and commercial customers in Flagler County. Late last year, the Florida Public Service Commission approved a 5 percent increase in FPL’s utility bills, and the company continues to charge customers for future nuclear power plant construction that may never take place.

FPL and Duke Energy Customers Still Saddled With Costs of Failed or Future Nuke Plants

August 6, 2013 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

The Florida Public Service Commission on Monday approved an agreement with Juno Beach-based FPL that will charge residential customers 48 cents per 1,000 kilowatt hours of power for nuclear construction at least 10 years away. The PSC backed an increase of 89 cents for the same amount of power that will be added to monthly bills of Duke Energy customers starting in January 2014, for nuclear plants that’ll never be built.

Attempt to Rein In FPL and Progress Energy’s Ghost Construction Fees Evaporates

May 2, 2013 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

The changes in the nuclear cost bill establish a series of benchmarks for a utility seeking to build a nuclear power plant to follow in order to impose pre-construction fees. But the amendment also removed a provision that would have required the companies to refund money if they halted their plans.

For FPL Customers, Bills $20 Higher in 2013 for Nuke-Plant Construction That May Never Happen

November 27, 2012 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

Flagler County customers of FPL will pay an additional $1.69 a month, or $20 for the year in 2013, for nuclear-plant construction slated for the distant future, and that may never take place. It’s the third year in a row that customers are paying those up-front costs.

Should You Keep Paying FPL and PEF For Nukes Plants that May Never Be Built?

October 8, 2012 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

The up-front nuclear costs for plant construction have become highly controversial, at least in part because there is no guarantee that FPL and Progress will build the planned reactors and because projected costs have risen to over $40 billion for four reactors. The Supreme Court will decide the matter.

Driven By Lower Fuel Costs, FPL Projects Lowering Power Bills By $2 a Month in 2012

November 22, 2011 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

FPL, the state’s largest utility, said 2012 fuel costs are now projected to be $460 million less than it had anticipated earlier as natural gas costs keep dropping. That won’t affect surcharges for future nuclear power plant construction.

How Progress Energy Wants to Pass On A $2.5 Billion Nuclear Blunder to Customers

November 21, 2011 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

One of the most expensive nuclear accidents in United States history happened right here in Florida a little over two years ago, and now Progress Energy wants customers to pay for its mistake at the Crystal River nuclear plant.

Nuclear Socialism: FPL and Progress Energy Get $282 Million Rate Hike

October 24, 2011 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

Though FPL’s and Progress Energy’s nuclear plants may never be built, the Public Service Commission is set to approve billing utility customers now for those future costs.

FPL’s $18 Billion Nuclear-Reactor Plans Leak Unanswered Questions Before Florida PSC

August 11, 2011 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

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FPL’s plan to pass along almost $200 million in nuclear construction costs to consumers in just one year raised a question at the Public Service Commission: why charge customers if the $13 billion to $19 billion nukes plants may never be built?

Florida’s Nuclear Energy Scamming: It’s Not Rickover’s Atomic Power Program Anymore

August 7, 2011 | FlaglerLive | 13 Comments

Customers should not have to pay decades ahead of time for Florida Power & Light’s and Progress Energy’s future nuclear power plans, especially when they may not be built, argues Darrell Smith.

FPL and Progress Energy Again Asking To Pass Along Ghost-Nuke Plant Costs

August 6, 2011 | FlaglerLive | 14 Comments

The shape of Florida Power & Light's and Progress Energy's nuclear power shakedown. (Michal Brcak)

Florida Power & Light and Progress Energy Florida are seeking to pass along about $335 million in nuclear costs to customers next year, largely to cover costs of nuclear plants that won’t be built for 10 years or more.

Pass-Through Crock: How Progress Energy May Once Again Nuke Its Customers

July 16, 2011 | FlaglerLive | 6 Comments

Progress Energy is already charging Florida customers $5.53 per month for non-existent nuclear-power plants slated for construction at unknown dates in the future. The Public Service Commission and the Legislature allow the scheme.

FPL, Progress Energy, Florida’s Nuclear Fraud

March 25, 2011 | FlaglerLive | 6 Comments

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Florida taxpayers and ratepayers are footing the bill of Florida Power & Light’s and Progress Energy’s risk-free, $40-billion plan to build nuclear reactors, a fraud enabled by the Legislature and Congress.

Disaster Ready? 5 Nuclear Reactors in Florida, 3 Of Them Within 180 Miles of Palm Coast

March 15, 2011 | FlaglerLive | 27 Comments

FPL's Crystal River nuclear plant is exactly the same distance from Palm Coast as Tokyo is from Japan's exploding nuclear power plant on Japan's northeast east coast. (L.G. Mills)

Progress Energy’s Crystal River Plant in west Florida is exactly the same distance–140 miles–separating Tokyo from the exploding Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Japan. Two reactors in Jensen Beach are 180 miles south.

Nuclear’s Glowing, False New Dawn

November 15, 2009 | Pierre Tristam | Leave a Comment

Besides radioactive waste with nowhere to go, the nuclear power industry is releasing a rich array of glowing falsehoods about the supposed promise of nuclear power.

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