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Who's Funding Kyrsten Sinema's AI Front Group?

Corporate America’s former ace-in-the-hole in the Senate is now lobbying for AI interests including Google, Meta, Microsoft, and ExxonMobil.

when Kyrsten Sinema was a senator, she was corporations’ ace-in-the-hole. Now, she’s their AI lobbyist.

Sinema has been pushing the industry’s interests at the local level in Chandler, Arizona, where she’s tried to bully city officials into approving her client’s AI data center. Using a public records request, Zeteo’s Akshay Gokul obtained documents showing that Sinema has been quietly lobbying politicians in Chandler for months, attempting to sell them on “our AI data center project.”

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The former senator has separately launched an AI-industry front group in Washington, DC, called the AI Infrastructure Coalition, where she’s now representing corporate giants like Google, Meta (Facebook’s parent company), Microsoft, and ExxonMobil; the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz; and utility firms PG&E, Next Era, and Pinnacle West.

In this must-watch video,Zeteo’s Frank Cappelloreviews Sinema’s lobbying for the AI industry, sharing the mobster-style pitch she made to officials in Chandler, and his own hope that she manages to “cash out before the AI bubble completely bursts.” We’d hate to see her lose the bag.

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Wind energy company pleads guilty after at least 150 eagles killed in U.S.

APRIL 7, 2022 / CBS/AP

A subsidiary of one of the largest U.S. providers of renewable energy pleaded guilty to criminal charges and was ordered to pay over $8 million in fines and restitution after at least 150 eagles were killed at its wind farms in eight states, federal prosecutors said Wednesday.

NextEra Energy subsidiary ESI Energy was also sentenced to five years probation after being charged with three counts of violating the Migratory Bird Treaty Act during a court appearance in Cheyenne, Wyoming. The charges arose from the deaths of nine eagles at three wind farms in Wyoming and New Mexico.

In addition to those deaths, the company acknowledged the deaths of golden and bald eagles at 50 wind farms affiliated with ESI and NextEra since 2012, prosecutors said. Birds were killed in eight states: Wyoming, New Mexico, North Dakota, Colorado, Michigan, Arizona, Illinois and California.

Eagles Killed Wind Turbines

This Jan. 5, 2020, photo shows a bald eagle in Philadelphia.

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"This prosecution and the restitution it secures will protect the ecologically vital and majestic natural resources of our bald eagle and golden eagle populations," U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert for the Eastern District of California said in a statement.

NextEra, based in Juno Beach, Florida, bills itself as the world's largest utility company by market value. It has more than 100 wind farms in the U.S. and Canada and also generates natural gas, nuclear and solar power

Almost all of the eagles killed at the NextEra subsidiary's facilities were struck by the blades of wind turbines, prosecutors said. Some turbines killed multiple eagles and because the carcasses are not always found, officials said the number killed was likely higher than the 150 birds cited in court documents.

Prosecutors said the company's failure to take steps to protect eagles or to obtain permits to kill the birds gave it an advantage over competitors that did take such steps - even as ESI and other NextEra affiliates received hundreds of millions of dollars in federal tax credits from the wind power they produced.

NextEra spokesperson Steven Stengel said the company didn't seek permits because it believes the law didn't require them for unintentional bird deaths. The company said its guilty plea will resolve all allegations over past fatalities and allow it to move forward without a continued threat of prosecution.

The criminal case comes amid a push by President Joe Biden for more renewable energy from wind, solar and other sources to help reduce climate changing emissions. It also follows a renewed commitment by federal wildlife officials under Biden to enforce protections for eagles and other birds under the Migratory Bird Treaty Act.Criminal prosecutions had been  halted under former President Donald Trump for birds killed inadvertently by industry.

It's illegal to kill or harm eagles under the migratory bird act. However, a wide range of industries - from energy firms to manufacturing companies - have lobbiedfor years against enforcing the law for accidental bird deaths.

The bald eagle - the U.S. national symbol since the 1700s - saw its populations widely decimated last century due to harmful pesticides such as DDT and other problems. Following a dramatic recovery, it was removed from protection under the Endangered Species Act in 2007. Biologists say more than 300,000 bald eagles now occupy the U.S., not including Alaska.

In the 1970s, there were believed to be just two bald eagles left in the entire state of New York City. Now, there are close to 1,000, and they're no longer considered endangered. They've been spotted in all five boroughs of New York City.

Golden eagles have not fared as well, with populations considered stable but under pressure from wind farms, collisions with vehicles, illegal shootings and poisoning from lead ammunition.

Most of the eagles killed at the ESI and NextEra wind farms were golden eagles, according to court documents.

There are an estimated 31,800 golden eagles in the Western U.S. with an estimated 2,200 killed annually due to human causes, or about 60% of all deaths, according to a study released last week by leading eagle researchers from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and other entities.

The study concluded that golden eagle deaths "will likely increase in the future" because of wind energy development and other human activities.

Companies historically have been able to avoid prosecution under the century-old Migratory Bird Treaty law if they take steps to avoid deaths and seek permits for those that occur.

Charging documents said company representatives, including ESI's president, were warned that eagles would be killed if the company built two wind farms in central and southeastern Wyoming, and also knew about a risk to eagles when they authorized the repowering of a New Mexico wind farm, about 170 miles (274 kilometers) from Albuquerque.

The company proceeded anyway and at times ignored further advice from federal wildlife officials about how to minimize the deaths, according to court documents.

"For more than a decade, ESI has violated (wildlife) laws, taking eagles without obtaining or even seeking the necessary permit," said Assistant Attorney General Todd Kim of the Justice Department's Environment and Natural Resources Division in a statement.

ESI agreed under a plea deal to spend up to $27 million during its five-year probationary period on measures to prevent future eagle deaths. That includes shutting down turbines at times when eagles are more likely to be present.

Despite those measures, wildlife officials anticipate that some eagles still could die. When that happens, the company will pay $29,623 per dead eagle under the plea deal.

NextEra President Rebecca Kujawa said collisions of birds with wind turbines are unavoidable accidents that should not be criminalized. She said the company is committed to reducing damage to wildlife from its projects.

"We disagree with the government's underlying enforcement activity," Kujawa said in a statement. "Building any structure, driving any vehicle, or flying any airplane carries with it a possibility that accidental eagle and other bird collisions may occur."

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The federal government finally managed to raise the debt ceiling to avoid default and potential economic catastrophe at the 11th hour, but the bill which achieves that, dubbed the Fiscal Responsibility Act, does a lot more than just lift the debt limit. It also expands work requirements for some benefit recipients, ends the moratorium on federal student loan repayment and fast tracks the long-stalled, controversial Mountain Valley pipeline across West Virginia and into Virginia. NPR's Dave Mistich takes a look at that natural gas line, the controversy surrounding it and why it's included in this legislation.

DAVE MISTICH, BYLINE: Maury Johnson was in a bit of a rush earlier this week. He was in the middle of a four-hour drive, barreling down the road from his home in Monroe County, W. Va., toward Washington, D.C.

MAURY JOHNSON: Can you just hang on a second? I'm going to - I can't stop at this guy's driveway.

MISTICH: The 62-year-old former teacher and farmer had planned on a relaxing Memorial Day to kick off the summer. Instead, Johnson learned that legislation to lift the nation's debt ceiling included a section that would greenlight the Mountain Valley Pipeline, so he packed up again and got back on the road.

JOHNSON: I've been up there a lot this spring - two weeks, one week, and I was home for a few days and back up there for 2 1/2 weeks just lobbying, talking to Congress and telling how bad this is.

MISTICH: First proposed in 2014, the more than 300-mile Mountain Valley Pipeline, or MVP, stretches across the heart of West Virginia and into Virginia. It cuts through a national forest and through Johnson's property. Work on the MVP has been off and on since 2018, as landowners and other opponents have brought a number of court challenges against the project. Johnson says the construction that has been accomplished has caused all sorts of problems.

JOHNSON: Just myself, I have documented 240 or more water resource problems all across the state, all the way from Mobley, W. Va., where this thing starts, all the way to the top of Peters Mountain on the border of Virginia and Monroe County.

MISTICH: A spokesperson for Equitrans, one of the five companies behind the MVP and its majority owner, says the pipeline has been subject to an unprecedented level of legal and regulatory review. But they're excited about this legislation to raise the debt ceiling and finish the pipeline. The first person they thanked by name - Democratic Senator Joe Manchin.

(SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING)

JOE MANCHIN: Nothing has ever been through a review process - that we've been told - in modern day has been reviewed as much as this MVP.

MISTICH: Manchin has been pushing to get this thing done for a long time. He says it's about securing energy independence, and that's why he was hopeful it would be included in the debt ceiling deal.

(SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING)

MANCHIN: I've talked to all the negotiators on both sides of the aisle - Kevin McCarthy and his team and the president and his team. Yes. And I said, you know, on that, this is something that can put this much production this quickly into the line.

MISTICH: Russell Chisholm, managing director of the Protect Our Water, Heritage, Rights coalition, based in Newport, Va., says the American public shouldn't have to choose between a national default and the MVP pipeline, which has been plagued by environmental concerns.

RUSSELL CHISHOLM: I think Joe Manchin likes to point to this as some sort of regulatory bureaucracy and red tape that has been slowing things down. The project never should have been approved.

MISTICH: Manchin isn't the only West Virginian championing the MVP. Republican Senator Shelley Moore Capito is also hailing its inclusion. She noted the debt limit bill will redirect all the court challenges, putting those decisions solely in the hands of the D.C.-based Circuit Court of Appeals.

(SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING)

SHELLEY MOORE CAPITO: After many, many attempts in the court to shut the entire thing down, it's time to bring it to a close, and this agreement brings it to a close.

MISTICH: Even though the debt ceiling looms over the pipeline fight this time, the passage of the bill doesn't lessen the controversy in the Appalachian Mountains. Opponents of the MVP say they'll continue their fight against the project, legally and otherwise.

Dave Mistich, NPR News, Morgantown, W. Va.

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Everyone loves a good pizza party, which is what I’m imagining the energy giant NextEra held in offices across the country as the company compelled employees to donate to Kyrsten Sinema last year. A reading of donations to the Arizona senator from 2021 Q4 is a who’s-who of executives, vice presidents, and managers within the company, broken up occasionally with infusions of cash from workers at Florida Power and Light—a subsidy of NextEra—and regular Americans who felt that Sinema’s position as a self-proclaimed progressive Democrat would somehow shield her from turning out like *gestures vaguely* this. The Guardian homed in on the mega-donors who met with Sinema during a Jan. 18 event at the River Oaks Country Club in Houston. They includeConocoPhilips head Ryan Lance and Continental Resources chairman Harold Hamm.

Rolling Stone, meanwhile, looked at GOP mega-donors interested in Sinema’s obstructionism like Harlan Crow, an avid Greg Abbott fan, and Ken Langone, who also gave fellow useless Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin a cash infusion. Crow was one of a few donors who were refunded because of their largesse, though those funds have likely been made up by the more than 45 NextEra employees on that Q4 list. The donations, which range from $250 to $2,000, total $51,250 from NextEra alone. PACs associated with the fossil fuel industry, like ExxonMobil PAC, American Petroleum Industry PAC, and Devon Energy Corporation PAC, also showed their love for Sinema to the tune of $2,500 apiece. Hope the cheese and pepperoni were worth it to thwart democracy, y’all!

Kidding aside and no disrespect to pizza, these donors are relative newcomers to Sinema. FEC data shows little movement from NextEra when it comes to lining Sinema’s pockets, and early donor cycles show more teachers and firefighters, plus venture capitalists and angel investors donating to Sinema instead. It’s quite the about-face for a candidate many hailed as a welcomed breath of fresh air for Arizona, who cut her teeth in as an adjunct professor and faculty member for the Center for Progressive Leadership before turning to politics.

If you truly follow the money, NextEra will lead you to its ambitious Sonoran Solar Project, which many, many Arizonans are opposed to based on its proximity to the Sonoran Desert National Monument. The GOP mega-donors interested in courting Sinema are doing so because it’s business as usual (regardless of party) if they can get someone to vote against the country’s better interests. But for NextEra, an eye-catching lawmaker doing its dirty work would make that more than $50K in donations well worth the investment.

There’ve been reports of Sinema losing support from donors who view her as a traitorous egoist more interested in boosting her profile than equality. The same does not go for Sinema’s lawmaker-in-arms Manchin. According to CNBC, Manchin’s rejection of Build Back Better earned him $300,000 over the course of last quarter.Manchin is worth $7.6 million thanks to his coal dealings. Can you imagine how much Sinema’s worth could balloon to were she to firmly reject what little Democratic support she’s got in favor of aligning with her recent batch of donors, like Texas Energy’s Kane Weiner and Pacific Power Source Inc. president Kevin Voelcker? The last thing the country needs is Manchin 2.0 or worse. Hell, Manchin in his current state of being isn’t all that great. **Call on both Manchin and Sinema to return their corporate and GOP donations.**

Percent margin needed to pass Florida's Amendment 1, a ballot measure that investor-owned utilities are promoting as pro-solar but that opponents say aims to protect the utilities' monopoly and slow the state's transition to solar power: 60

Amount raised by Consumers for Smart Solar, the group promoting Amendment 1: more than $21.5 million

Percent of that amount which came from big utilities and other companies whose bottom lines would be hurt by encouraging consumers to switch to solar power: 80

Amount contributed to the by Duke Energy alone: more than $5.7 million

Amount contributed by Florida Power and Light, which is owned by Florida-based NextEra Energy: almost $5.5 million

Amount contributed by the 60 Plus Association, a conservative political advocacy group that's received tens of millions of dollars from organizations associated with the brothers that run the Koch Industries oil and chemical conglomerate: over $1.4 million

Factor by which the amount raised by Consumers for Smart Solar exceeds total funds raised by the grassroots opposition campaign group, Floridians for Solar Choice, a politically diverse coalition that includes the League of Women Voters, the Sierra Club, the Christian Coalition and various Republican groups: 10

Number of professional signature-gathering firms the utility-backed campaign hired in order to get its measure on this year's ballot: *

Date on which Florida Supreme Court Justice Barbara Pariente, in her dissent from the 4-3 decision allowing Amendment 1 to appear on the ballot, warned that the initiative was a "wolf in sheep's clothing": 3/31/2016

Date on which the Clear Language Institute, a nonprofit that promotes using easy-to-understand language in legislation, bestowed its first "Deceptive Language Award" on the pro-Amendment 1 group for misleading voters: 10/2/2016

Florida's ranking among states for solar energy potential: 3

Its ranking among states for installed solar capacity: 14

Number of electricity customers in Florida: 9 million

Number of rooftop solar systems in the state: fewer than 12,000

Date on which early voting begins in Florida: 10/24/2016

In a recent poll, percent of likely Florida voters who said they planned to vote for Amendment 1: 84

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provision of the 2009 Recovery Act providing cash payments in lieu of tax credits. Iberdrola’s subsidy total is $2.2 billion. Other top grant/ allocated tax credit recipients include NextEra Energy (parent of Florida Power & Light), NRG Energy, Southern Company, Summit Power and SCS Energy, each with more than $1 billion. The results exclude the numerous corporate tax breaks that ca

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NextEra Energy Resources was previously known as FPL Energy and is a subsidiary of FPL Group, which also owns Florida Power & Light. NextEra changed its name in January 2009. It is the largest producer of wind and solar energy in North America. The company currently has more than 6,300 megawatts of windgeneration in operation, enough to power more than 1.5 million average homes. It also is the largest generator of solar thermal power in the world. The company co-owns and operates seven solar plants in California’s Mojave Desert, which collectively form the world’s largest solar site. In all, the company operates 310 megawatts of solar power.^[1]

NextEra Energy Resources also incorporatesnuclearpower into its portfolio through 88 percent ownership of the Seabrook Station in New Hampshire; a 70 percent interest in the Duane Arnold Energy Center in Iowa; and 100 percent ownership of Point Beach Nuclear Plant in Wisconsin. The FPL Group nuclear fleet, including nuclear assets of Florida Power & Light Company, is the third largest in the United States.^[1]

Existing Coal Plants

Ownership or partial ownership of coal plants:^[2]

Contact details

Website: http://www.nexteraenergyresources.com/

External links

"FPL announces plans for new solar energy generation, including world's largest photovoltaic solar project and first solar thermal 'hybrid' energy center,"company press release, June 25, 2008

References

1. ↑ ^1.0 1.1 "FPL Energy to change name to NextEra Energy Resources" NextEra Energy Resources Website, January 7, 2009.
2. ↑ "NextEra Energy Resources Facilities" NextEra Energy Resources Website, September 2009

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• Energy
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Florida Power & Light (FPL) is the main subsidiary of FPL Group, which also owns FPL Energy (now NextEra Energy Resources), an operator of wind, solar, nuclear, and some coal facilities. Florida Power & Light has power stations at fourteen different locations, the bulk gas-fired stations. It also operates two nuclear power stations (Turkey Point and St. Lucie in Florida) and two coal-fired power stations, the St. Johns River Power Park in Florida and the Scherer Steam Generating Station in Georgia.^[1]

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• 1 Existing Coal Plants
• 2 CEO compensation
• 3 Nuclear plants
  • 3.1 Turkey Point safety issues
  • 3.2 Report: FP&L's nuclear plants not replacing coal

• 4 Contact details
• 5 Articles and Resources
  • 5.1 Related SourceWatch Articles
  • 5.2 References
  • 5.3 External resources
  • 5.4 External articles

Existing Coal Plants

Florida Power & Light has partial ownership of the following plants:^[1]

Florida Power & Light owns 75% of Unit 4 of the Scherer Station, and 20% of two units of St. Johns.

CEO compensation

In May 2007, Forbes listed FPL Group CEO Lewis Hay III as receiving $11.82 million in total compensation for the latest fiscal year, with a five-year total compensation of $38.13 million. He ranked 8th on the list of CEOs in the Utilities industry, and 159th out of all CEOs in the United States.^[2]

Nuclear plants

Turkey Point safety issues

In March 2009, as FPL worked on plans to build two new nuclear reactors at its Turkey Point plant in South Miami-Dade County, evidence surfaced about a 2008 incident where the plant's top nuclear operator, David Hoffman resigned because he felt the company pressured plant employees to not follow safety procedures in order to save money. Hoffman blasted FPL for "constantly putting cost savings ahead of safety and creating a horrible morale problem." His resignation letter alleged, "People are not valued and are treated like equipment and numbers." Hoffman had "complained to the utility several times about issues in which he thought executives let cost-cutting 'interfere with the proper maintenance' of the Turkey Point reactors. ... The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has found 25 or more violations of reliability standards because of the incident, and FPL is now facing millions of dollars in fines." ^[3]

A 2008 survey of Turkey Point workers about the plant's system for reporting safety issues, the Employee Concerns Program (ECP) "found that more than one in four -- 29.2 percent -- disagreed with the following statement: 'I am confident that nuclear safety and quality issues reported through the ECP are thoroughly investigated and appropriately resolved.' More than one in three disagreed with this following statement: 'I can use the ECP without fear of retaliation.'" ^[3]

Report: FP&L's nuclear plants not replacing coal

A 2011 report by NC Warn, "New Nuclear Power is Ruining Climate Protection Efforts and Harming Customers", argues that companies like Florida Power & Light have said they want to lead the way to a “low carbon” future by building more nuclear power plants, but instead of replacing their coal-burning plants with nuclear power, the companies "plan to keep operating most or all of their coal plants indefinitely, while adding more nuclear (and fossil fuel) plants so they can expand electricity sales both within and outside the region."

The report states that "Florida Power & Light plans to increase generating capacity by an ambitious 9,510 MW, including over 5,000 MW of natural gas units. If completed, two new AP1000s at Turkey Point would contribute more than 2,200 MW of new capacity (the opening date is now projected to be after the 2020 planning horizon). FP&L does not project any coal closures at this time."^[4]

Contact details

Website: http://www.fpl.com/

Articles and Resources

Related SourceWatch Articles

• The economic crisis and coal
• United States and coal

References

1. ↑ ^Jump ^up ^to:1.0 1.1 "About Us — Florida Power & Light Company", Florida Power & Light Company website, accessed November 2008.
2. :{Jump up:(style="top:-99999px;clip:rect(1px 1px 1px 1px);overflow:hidden;position:absolute !important;padding:0px !important;border:0px !important;height:1px !important;width:1px !important"):}:↑ CEO Compensation: #159 Lewis Hay III, Forbes.com, May 3, 2007.
3. ↑ ^Jump ^up ^to:3.0 3.1 John Dorschner, "Court papers reveal nuclear feud at Turkey Point: The top nuclear operator at Turkey Point resigned after a huge outage because he felt his bosses were demanding an unsafe restart," Miami Herald(Florida), March 12, 2009.
4. :{Jump up:(style="top:-99999px;clip:rect(1px 1px 1px 1px);overflow:hidden;position:absolute !important;padding:0px !important;border:0px !important;height:1px !important;width:1px !important"):}:↑ Jim Warren, "New Nuclear Power is Ruining Climate Protection Efforts and Harming Customers" NC Warn, 2011 Report.

External resources

External articles

• Julie Patel, "FPL wants to boost electric rates by at least $1 billion a year: The company submitted a proposal Wednesday to the Florida Public Service Commission to increase base power rates by $1 billion in 2010 and $1.25 billion in 2011," South Florida Sun-Sentinel (Fort Lauderdale, Florida), March 19, 2009.

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NextEra Energy, Inc. (NEE)

Business: Electric utility focusing primarily on wind, natural gas, and nuclear generation with market

capitalization of $23.93 billion in 2011 (1)

Climate Statements:

“NextEra Energy Resources believes the threat to the nation from carbon emissions is not just

an environmental threat but an economic threat as well. We are strong advocates of a

mandatory, economy-wide carbon fee in the United States. NextEra Energy Resources’ portfolio

of clean, renewable power sources puts us, our investors, and our customers on the right side of

a future where those who emit carbon will pay fees to pollute. Companies can avoid paying the

carbon fee by not emitting carbon—exactly the behavior we need to encourage.” – Website of

NextEra Energy, Inc. (2)

“As the world leader in renewable energy and the nation’s leading utility in energy conservation

programs, FPL Group is proud to be among other industry leaders and stakeholders who are

part of this positive collaboration to support the formulation of mandatory policies to reduce

CO2 emissions for our country.” – Website of NextEra Energy, Inc. (3)

“Climate change isn’t going away,” says Lewis Hay, CEO of NextEra Energy, the largest U.S.

producer of wind and solar energy. “We're going to have to take action sooner or later.” (4)

Congressional Testimony: “FPL Energy is committed to clean energy sources and strongly believes that

among all of the renewable energy technologies, wind energy is the most economically viable and has

the greatest potential to add significant new clean electric power across a broad range of geographic

regions in the United States.” –Dean Gosselin, Vice President for Business Development, FPL Energy (5)

Endangerment Comment: None submitted.

Securities and Exchange Commission: “In anticipation of the potential for further imposition of GHG

emission limits on the electric industry in the future, FPL Group has taken a leadership role in the debate

[on] climate change regulation and is involved in several climate change initiatives, including but not

limited to the following: voluntary reporting of its GHG emissions and climate change strategy through

the Carbon Disclosure Project (an investor-led initiative to identify climate change impacts on publicly

traded companies); participation in the U.S. Climate Action Partnership (an alliance made up of a diverse

group of U.S.-based businesses and environmental organizations, which in January 2009 issued the

Blueprint for Legislative Action, a set of legislative principles and recommendations to address global

climate change and the reduction of GHG emissions); ...” (6)

Trade Organization Affiliations: Alliance for Energy and Economic Growth, (7) Business Roundtable, (8)

Edison Electric Institute, (9) American Wind Energy Association (board member), (10) Carbon Disclosure

Project, (11) Pew Business Environmental Leadership Council, (12) U.S. Climate Action Partnership, (13)

and Solar Energy Industries Association (board member). (14)

Think Tank/Environmental Group Affiliations: None found.

Contributions: Ratio of pro-climate to anti-climate contributions: 1:1.89

Contributions both to pro- and anti-climate members of Congress: $1,377,522 (15)

Contributions to No on Prop. 23, the campaign to sustain AB 32, California’s Global Warming Solutions

Act: $50,000. (16)

Federal Lobbying: $3,200,000 from 2009–2010 (15)

Miscellaneous: NextEra Energy, Inc. has two principal subsidiaries – Florida Power & Light Company and

NextEra Energy Resources. (17)

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NextEra Energy, Inc. (NEE) is a Fortune 200 energy company with about 42,500 megawatts of generating capacity, revenues of approximately $15.1 billion, and about 13,900 employees in 26 states and Canada. NEE is listed as #191 in the 2014.^[2][3] Its subsidiaries include Florida Power & Light (FPL), NextEra Energy Resources (NEER), and FPL FiberNet.

• FPL, the largest of the subsidiaries, delivers rate-regulated electricity to 4.8 million customers in Florida and is the US's third largest utility company.^{[citation needed]}
• NEER, together with its affiliated entities, is the world's largest generator of renewable energy from the wind and sun.{{Citation}} In addition to wind and solar, NextEra Energy Resources owns and operates generating plants powered by natural gas, nuclear fuel, and oil.
  • Gexa Energy is a retail energy provider in Texas
• FPL FiberNet is a provider of fiber-optic solutions in Florida and Texas. FPL FiberNet begin in the 1980s, selling excess capacity on the company's fiber-optic infrastructure; the company was established in 2000.^[

In 2011, NEE was listed by Fortune Magazine as the most admired company in the industry of electric and gas utilities.^[4]

On December 4, 2014, NEE announced its plans to purchase Hawaiian Electric Industriesfor $4.3 billion^[5] "in a bet it can reduce the nation’s highest rates by using more renewable energy."

In the news

In April 2009, BusinessWeek magazine reported the company (at the time FPL Group) was one of 25 US companies that paid the least US taxes. FPL Group paid a 1.3 percent annual tax rate, far less than the standard 35 percent corporate rate, based on an analysis of the company's financial figures for 2005–2008. On more than $7 billion in company earnings during this four-year period, FPL Group paid $88 million in taxes. The company was able to take advantage of certain tax breaks for developing alternative energy. A company spokesperson said the company is merely taking advantage of incentives to develop renewable resources.^[6]