State (Florida) shuts down FPL energy program

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BY JOHN DORSCHNER
Miami Herald

State regulators Tuesday terminated a Florida Power & Light voluntary green energy program because three-fourths of the money customers were donating went to marketing and administrative costs.

By a unanimous vote, the Public Service Commission ended FPL's Sunshine Energy Program in which 39,000 customers have voluntarily added $9.75 to their monthly electric bill so that FPL could purchase renewable energy.

FPL in turn contracted with a Texas company, Green Mountain Energy, to carry out the program. PSC staff have been trying for months to find out where the money went, but all it could learn was that 24 percent was going to purchase renewable energy.

Commissioner Nathan Skop, who had once worked for an FPL sister company promoting renewables, said about $9 million in customers' money had gone , "into a black hole where there is no transparency. . . . Clearly this is not right.''

[JohnWxy]

1. corporate creeps.

recommended.

[islandmkl]

2. this is SOP for florida...on all too many levels...

everything is for sale, everything is to be developed, every scam is business as usual, there is no bottom....

[diane in sf]

3. Green Mountain Energy is a friend of Bush and screwed people over during

the fake Enron energy crisis here in California. They are corporate criminals.