But Dennis, in an interview last year, recalled receiving a job offer with remarkable similarities to the one outlined in the internal Matrix documents. 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. Hours later, a story like the one the executive pitched appeared on The Capitolist. It grew by 57 percent in 2020, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration. The mayor, Lenny Curry, was ideologically predisposed to privatize a large government agency like JEA, and both the official and political arms of his office were surrounded by friends of FPL. With two months until voters elect the next Florida Governor, NextEra Energy and its subsidiaries, Florida Power & Light and Florida City Gas, have poured nearly $6 million into state level campaign funds and political committees. President and CEO of Florida Power & Light Eric Silagy speaks to the media after FPL imploded its last Florida . Letsgetstarted. Customers at the time were paying some of the highest rates for electricity in the south-east. The Governor appoints members to the Florida Public Service Commission (PSC), the regulatory body responsible for overseeing utilities and determining their profitability, making influence over the Governors office critical to NextEras shareholders. Crist secured a deal to freeze FPL rates in 2005 as Attorney General, and he opposed FPLs $1.3 billion rate increase in 2009, which was then blocked by Crist appointees at the PSC. "And we support organizations who had that mission.". Records obtained by the Sentinel also show overlap between Grow United and previous campaigns to overhaul net metering. The majority of Florida Power & Light (FPL) contributions have been to the Florida Republican Party, GOP committees and candidates, and political committees associated with corporate special interests. View dataset here. 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. In one case, at the suggestion of Silagy, FPL's CEO, Burgess included in a newsletter a photoshopped image of the Herald's Tallahassee bureau chief, Mary Ellen Klas, as a pauper begging for money. 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.". Just as well, such a reliance on natural gas leaves consumers susceptible to the volatility of gas prices. Ketchum also reiterated that when he was named to the NextEra CEO role after Jim Robo stepped down, Silagy had committed to Ketchum that he would lead FPL for at least one more year. That growth has the utilities, and legislators, worried. As a result of the current system, my constituents are being forced to subsidize the decisions of neighbors in other counties who are in a position to be able to put these expensive systems on their homes, Bradley said. According to FPL, the plant also has the best available and most advanced emission-control equipment.. 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FPL's former consultants orchestrated a financial takeover of a small Tallahassee-based political news site with a conservativebent that allowed the utility's highest executives to weigh in with editorial decisions, the internal Matrix records show. The financial entanglement between FPL and The Capitolist dated back to 2018, records leaked to the Miami Herald show, when an FPL vice president suggested the website publish a critical piece on DeSantis' Democratic opponent, Andrew Gillum. Silagy, the FPL CEO, says the pair initially told him they had come to an amicable agreement about parting ways. Note: This story has been updated to correctly reflect Pimentel's prior roles. The company's owner, Joe Perkins, and its former CEO, Jeff Pitts, parted ways in early 2021, becoming bitter enemies locked in legal battles in courtrooms in Alabama and Jacksonville. He has denied the allegations. Matrix consultants had little regard for the professional press. That gave Matrix consultants and FPL executives input on Capitolist stories. While the transition to natural gas has reduced emissions that would otherwise come from oil or gas, and installing utility-scale solar is an important step, getting to zero emissions takes a lot more than that, she said. Im not afraid if the conclusion is its not the time to do this. Download the FPL Mobile App Now 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. 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Hundreds of pages of internal documents which are only coming to light now because Matrixs founders are locked in an epic feud detail the firms secret work to help power companies like FPL protect their profits and fight the transition to cleaner forms of energy. The warm light racesacross a 600-mile expanse of land and coast before finally brightening the Perdido River in Escambia County on Florida's western border. 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. He is also suing Perkins, alleging defamation and extortion. From a public perception, maybe there is value in highlighting where our emissions come from, Patino-Echeverri said. A local law firm and the company that owned the coal plant used the charity to pay the representative. 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. She likened it to comparing emissions from a personal car used once a week and a city bus that takes many trips. "It is a decision that is not easy, but I feel good about moving forward and doing it when the company is in its strongest financial and operational position that it's ever been in with a very strong leadership team.". Its CEO, Mark Crosswhite, stepped down in December. 11:52AM. 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. Do you need this bus to transport this many people, and do you need it to be this large? she asked hypothetically. Butone thing the leaked Matrix records make clear isthat more secrets remain on the firm's hard drive. However, those policies are coming under fire as utilities become. 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. Pitts at the time forwarded a draft of the script to two FPL executives. Learn More About FPL News Company Careers Environment Community Donate to Care To Share Rates and Your Bill About Energy Energy My Way Ensuring Reliability Clean Energy Solar Electric Vehicles Power Disturbances Safety Partner Resources Supplier Home and Login PIC Login These email records were provided to the Times/Herald and Floodlight by the Energy & Policy Institute, a watchdog organization that works to counter misinformation about renewable energy. Companies do not pass legislation. And an additional kudos to the Miami Herald for its own story on the latest batch of leaked Matrix records, which can be read here. Florida Power & Light customers who paid $101.70 last year for a typical monthly bill of 1,000 . I feel rooftop solar is beneficial to the environment, and Floridians. We are committed to being as clean as we can as fast as we can without sacrificing reliability or affordability, McGrath said. 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. As such, it would seem the FPL plantsinclusion on the list is unfair. Very early on in this bills ride, I think it has a real chance to settle out in a way that most parties are not upset, he said. All rights reserved. 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. Dunn lost his 2014 re-election campaign by a 19-point margin to Chip Beeker, a catfish farmer who is still in office. It's easy to pay your bill, view your energy usage, manage your account and more. Matrixs influence was felt on matters small and large, from Stoddards city of less than 12,000 to statewide fights over the Florida constitution. Florida Power & Light has also invested millions into groups with untraceable, anonymous donors that launched attacks on state and local politicians. Four other FPL natural gas plants also made the list, but are still ranked among the most efficient in terms of emissions per megawatt hour of energy produced. While the West County Energy Center ranked 29th on this list for emitting more than 7.3 billion kilograms of carbon dioxide in 2020, equivalent to emissions from nearly 1.6 million passenger cars, FPL is also correct when it says the facilityis among the most efficient power plants in the country. FPL has echoed Pitts' allegations and called into question the veracity of some of the leaked records, although it has repeatedly refused to provide evidence the documents have been altered in any way. COMMENTARY | Just a 14-minute drive from Florida Power & Light'sheadquarters in Juno Beach is the easternmost point in the state, where the sun's radiant light first cracks the night skyeach morning. And a former regional administrator for the EPA who did business with Pitts pleaded guilty to violating state ethics law multiple times. 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About a decade ago, FPL made the fateful decision to hire Matrix LLC, an Alabama-based political consulting firm notorious in its home state but with little public profile in Florida. Matrix employees had a Jacksonville journalist spied on after he wrote critically about FPL. FPL has acknowledged it received the idea but insists the company immediately rejected it. But wherever the pair went, indictments often followed. Namely,how "clean" can, or should, an energy system be to make inroads in tacklingclimate change as the urgency heightens? One-tenth of 1percent of the power comes from oil. 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 state board recently rebuffed a request from several Democratic lawmakers for an audit of Florida Power & Light's finances, which the representatives sought following reports linking the. Silagy is to be replaced by Armando Pimentel, a former senior executive at NextEra Energy. The job was to be with a shell nonprofit created by Matrix employees that supported marijuana decriminalization and, on its face, had no connection to FPL. Join the New Times community and help support We may need some portion of our energy to still come from fossil fuels, because there are industrial processes that are hard to electrify, she said. I just wanted to check in and see if you had any follow up information or language in regards to the net metering bill you discussed with Senator Bradley., Holley replied eight minutes later: I do. Florida Power & Light spokesperson Chris McGrath said the company doesnt oppose net metering but wants to see the current law revised. Political editor Emily L. Mahoney will send you a rundown on local, state and national politics coverage every Thursday. Former FPL senior executive Armando Pimentel was named as Silagy's replacement. 3:12. 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. That is your choice, but rest assured, we will hold you accountable if that continues to happen. That cost is based on the avoided cost that the utility would have incurred if it were to install a comparable system. Hannah Morse covers consumer issues for The Palm Beach Post. The company provided The Palm Beach Post with 2019 data on emissions and energy production at power plants, including its own, which was in line with the source of the 2020 data used by Find Energy. Bradley filed the bill in November. Still,plants with high emissions are going to draw attention in the overall effort to cut down ongreenhouse gas, experts say. Burgess said he never pitched nor solicited feedback from FPL executives on any story or business venture, and FPL spokesperson Chris McGrath said acquiring a news organization would not have made sense as a business deal for FPL. "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. Perkins called Matrixs work for the utility confidential. In the remarkably successful years of its ambitious expansionism, secret records show FPL may have also been sowing the seeds of its more uncertain present. Florida Power & Light is pushing for it as Florida's biggest utility it has 5.5 million customers, about 65 percent of the state. In 2013, Terry Dunn, a Republican electricity regulator at Alabamas Public Service Commission made moves to hold formal hearings on how customers energy bills were calculated something that hadnt happened in three decades. The negative is the immense amount of megawatts, but its a need for the community. 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. 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. The CEO of the biggest power company in the US had a problem. A Democratic state senator was proposing a law that could cut into Florida Power & Lights (FPL) profits. Katie Chiles Ottenweller, Southeast director for Vote Solar, an Atlanta-based advocacy organization, is optimistic but wary given Florida Power & Lights clout in the Florida Legislature and its role in drafting the bill. In Florida, Matrixs work touched almost every level of politics, from influencing local mayoral and county commission elections to combating attempts to reshape the state constitution. A short-lived organization called "Fix JEA Now" registered a web domain in 2017 and began making dramatic claims about the city-owned utility. The non-profit, called Broken Promises, first donated the funds to a political committee called Consumers for Energy Fairness. That proposal was forwarded to Silagy at FPL but never came to fruition. As you may know, Gera is NextEra Energys Vice President and Chief Litigation Officer. Please provide us with the Personal Identification Number (PIN) that you were given for a co-browse session with our representative. Florida Power & Light has pushed back against efforts to bring solar panels to the Sunshine State, while runoff from the sugar industry is a major source of water pollution in Florida.. This legislation allowed for Kelly to be replaced with a former utility lobbyist, Richard Gentry. In Florida, FPL and Matrix demonstrated how a utility and its consultants can work in tandem to resist clean energy reforms. In 2019, when the electric utility industry was up in arms about a constitutional amendment to open up competition in Floridas energy market, a Matrix-linked non-profit poured more than $10m into groups fighting it. Perkins and Pitts worked together for more than 25 years, expanding the firm into a national operation with dozens of clients in myriad industries. For example, in documents obtained by reporters, Silagy had emailed two of his vice presidents to make a state senator's "life a living hell" after proposing a pro-solar bill. He says he told them that he was disappointed, but there was enough work for both of them, based on the good work they had done. 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. In the Southeast, power company money flows to news sites that attack their critics, She was an ABC News producer. Florida Power & Light CEO Eric Silagy was directly involved in steering funds to dark-money groups led by the consultants who controlled Grow United, the organization used to promote the ghost candidates, according to documents obtained by the Sentinel. When the small south Florida citys mayor helped pass an ordinance in 2017 mandating rooftop solar panels on new construction, a network of 10 FPL-aligned operatives mobilized to ensure his ouster. From the beginning, Matrix showed no aversion to unsavory political tactics. F lorida Power & Light is an investor owned company. Going through those tens of thousands ofrecords, he said, alerted him to the extent of work Pitts performed without his knowledge. them with making Rodrguez's life "a living hell.". In each of those cases, Matrix was working against politicians or policies fighting to curb the climate crisis by encouraging renewable power. The tactics worked. Along with a private investigator, the group delved into Stoddards past for episodes to weaponize against him, such as a South Miami commissioners claim on Facebook that Stoddard had forcibly kissed her. Last June, Florida Power & Light spokesperson David Reuter wrote that the initial review had exonerated the company: "This detailed report found no evidence of illegality or wrongdoing on the part of FPL or any of its employees." 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. Theyve got the lobbying power, and weve got the people power.. The warm light races across a 600-mile expanse of land and coast before finally brightening the Perdido River in Escambia County on Florida's western border. What people may not realize is that public opinion is very much in our favor, said Bryan Jacob of the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy. 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. ", FPL lauds its reliability and maintains it has the lowest electricity rates in the country. Emails show that Bradleys staff followed up with Florida Power & Light after that discussion. 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. Another factor is promoting energy efficiency at the consumer level, Shober said. Energy poles by Florida Power and Light from Turkey Point nuclear generating station in Miami, Florida. During his decade-long tenure as FPL chief, Silagy oversaw billions of dollars worth of power plant conversions from coal and oil to natural gas electric generation. I am concerned that it will result in significant costs here, but I also dont want to destroy the rooftop solar industry in Florida.. Make a one-time donation today for as little as $1. 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. A Democratic state senator was proposing a law that could cut into Florida Power & Light's (FPL) profits. Perkins claims he only became aware of this work after he encountered what appeared to be a damaged hard drive in Pitts' former office and hired an IT team to extract the remains. So Florida Power & Light did something about it. In 2020, FPL would help Florida Republicans keep control of the state Senate by contributing to several close races, in the process dispatching one of the few incumbents who was publicly critical of the company. There has to be a transition. In California, regulators plan to increase fees on rooftop solar customers. Under the scheme, a candidate with no political background was on the ballot as a no-party option in an effort to confuse voters and dilute support for the Democrat in the race, helping Republicans maintain their majority in the state Senate. Want more of our free, weekly newslettersinyourinbox? Even some environmental advocates say the change is fair and necessary because of the fast rate of rooftop solar development in that state. NextEra Energy and its subsidiaries, Florida Power & Light and Florida City Gas, have poured nearly $6 million into state level campaign funds and political committees. Those who provoked the utilitys ire suffered a harsh response. Drop a line at hmorse@pbpost.com, call 561-820-4833 or follow her on Twitter @mannahhorse. 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 . The majority of Florida Power & Light (FPL) contributions have been to the Florida Republican Party, GOP committees and candidates, and political committees associated with corporate special interests. Justin Vandenbroeck, the president of the Florida Solar Energy Industries Association who also owns an Orlando-based solar installation company, said the solar industry consists mostly of independently-owned small businesses. 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. small-scale solar capacity in the state. local news and culture, Alex DeLuca FPL did not respond to requests for comment by deadline. A Democratic state senator was proposing a law that could cut into Florida Power & Lights (FPL) profits. 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. See How. That candidate later admitted he was bribed to run. 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