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49-539: GPC was founded in 1925, and was acquired by Juno Beach-based NextEra Energy (the parent company of Florida Power & Light ) in 2019. In 2021 GPC was legally merged into Florida Power & Light. NextEra has stated it will operate GPC as a separate company within FPL through 2021. In early 2022 it was absorbed into FPL as its Northwest Florida division. Gulf Power Company was headquartered in Pensacola, Florida , and has

98-558: A $ 10,000 donation to Women Building the Future, drafted a bill, had their lobbyist deliver the bill to Florida legislator Jennifer Bradley, and subsequently donated $ 10,000 to her re-election campaign. “This is a tired tactic that utilities have used to maintain their monopoly grip on electricity markets,” said Will Giese, southeast regional director for the Solar Energy Industries Association. Opponents of

147-630: A $ 18.7 billion merger agreement on July 29, 2016, but the agreement was terminated in July 2017 after the Texas Public Utility Commission rejected the offer over disagreement on the control of Oncor's board of directors. Two other competing bids were submitted in July 2017 for purchasing Oncor, including a $ 17.5 billion bid from Berkshire Hathaway Energy and a $ 18.5 billion bid from Elliott Management Corporation . In January 2018, NextEra Energy expressed interest with members of

196-1088: A 10-megawatt solar array outside of Ocean City, Maryland . The array will provide the city with approximately 20% of its annual energy usage when completed. In October 2018, Constellation and the Tucson Unified School District completed a project that added solar generation capability to 82 of the district's buildings and facilities. The project is estimated to meet 47% of the district's electricity needs. In 2022, it became an independent company after Exelon split its utilities and power generation businesses. Former subsidiary Baltimore Gas & Electric remained part of Exelon. Constellation provides electric power to commercial and industrial customers. Its electricity supply business manages energy sales, dispatch, and delivery from Exelon's power generation portfolio to utilities, municipal co-ops, and energy retailers nationwide. As of 2018 , Constellation had around 360 megawatts of solar generation assets that are either in operation or under construction across

245-460: A 550-MW facility near Odessa, Texas. The purchase added 1,100 MW of capacity. On April 28, 2011, Exelon announced its intention to purchase Constellation Energy. The merger was completed on March 12, 2012. On May 27, 2011, Constellation Energy announced its intention to purchase StarTex Power, a retail electricity provider in Houston, Texas; the purchase was completed on June 1, 2011. In 2018,

294-831: A direct contribution of $ 6,000 from NextEra. Veterans for Conservative Principles, his political committee, accepted close to $ 13,000 from NextEra. Prior to his resignation from the Florida Senate in April 2017, Artiles fast-tracked pro-utility bills as former chairman of the Florida Senate’s Communications, Energy and Public Utilities Committee, including a bill that would have permitted NextEra to charge its fracking costs to Florida ratepayers. In 2018, Senator Keith Perry won re-election against Democrat Kayser Enneking by around 2,000 votes, due to independent Charles Goston pulling votes away from Enneking. According to

343-879: A joint venture, UniStar Nuclear, with Areva to market the European Pressurized Reactor (EPR) in the United States. On December 19, 2005, FPL Group, Inc. announced the acquisition of Constellation Energy in a merger transaction valued at more than $ 11 billion, as well as the fact that it would adopt Constellation Energy as its name for the post-merger entity. The merger was canceled on October 25, 2006. In July 2008, Constellation Energy bought uranium trading firm Nufcor International from AngloGold Ashanti and FirstRand International . On September 15, 2008, after reports that Constellation had exposure to Lehman Brothers following that firm's bankruptcy filing, Constellation's stock price dropped 56% in

392-561: A mere thirty two votes. Former senator Frank Artiles and his accomplice were each charged with three third-degree felony charges related to violating campaign finance law, conspiracy to make campaign contributions in excess of legal limits, also making these excess contributions, and false swearing in connection to an election. Artiles has for years associated with Florida utilities, including NextEra and its subsidiary FPL. Artiles obtained over $ 30,000 in political contributions from Florida utilities throughout his time in office, which included

441-615: A physical load-following energy supply contract. Constellation delivers approximately 730 billion cubic feet (21 billion cubic metres) of natural gas annually to customers, making it one of the ten largest natural gas marketers in the United States. The company oversees trading, transport, and storage of physical gas supply, pricing, hedging, and risk management. Constellation Technology Ventures (CTV), Constellation's venture capital fund, invests in start-up companies with emerging energy technologies. Their portfolio includes Proterra , ChargePoint and Aquion Energy Constellation

490-729: A plan by NextEra Energy to build a coal-burning power plant on 5,000 acres (20 km ) in Moore Haven, Florida , near the Everglades National Park . The National Park Service raised concerns that the coal plant would contaminate Lake Okeechobee with mercury and harm the Everglades. On January 5, 2009, 30 environmental activists staged a five-day vigil along the Barley Barber Swamp to draw attention to what they claimed were damages being wrought by

539-472: A regulated utility operating under Exelon Utilities. The current iteration of the company was founded in 2022 after splitting off from Exelon . Before merging with Exelon, Constellation Energy Group operated more than 35 power plants in 11 states (mainly Maryland, Pennsylvania, New York, West Virginia, and California). Baltimore Gas and Electric created Constellation as a holding company in 1999. On September 15, 2005, Constellation Energy announced

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588-532: A service territory that spans 7,550 square miles (19,600 km) in 10 counties and 71 towns in northwest Florida. Gulf Power had approximately 465,000 customers in Florida. Gulf Power Company owned 1,600 miles (2,600 km) of transmission lines and 7,636 miles (12,289 km) of distribution lines (1,748 underground) that stretch from the western Alabama border to the Apalachicola River and from

637-577: A single day. The massive drop led the New York Stock Exchange to halt trading in Constellation. The next day, as the stock fell as low as $ 13 a share, the company announced it was hiring Morgan Stanley and UBS to advise it on "strategic alternatives" suggesting a buyout. On September 17, 2008, Constellation accepted an offer of $ 4.7 billion by MidAmerican Energy , a subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway , but ultimately canceled

686-588: Is an American energy company with about 58 GW of generating capacity (24 GW of which were from fossil fuel sources ), revenues of over $ 18 billion in 2020, and about 14,900 employees throughout the US and Canada . It is the world's largest electric utility holding company by market capitalization, with a valuation of over $ 170 billion as of Oct 2024. Its subsidiaries include Florida Power & Light (FPL), NextEra Energy Resources (NEER), NextEra Energy Partners , Gulf Power Company , and NextEra Energy Services. FPL,

735-590: Is the United States' leading nuclear power plant operator, with over 19,000 megawatts. Constellation owns and operates a portfolio of fossil fuel and other sources generating more than 12,000 megawatts (MW) of power. Constellation's two hydroelectric plants generate 1,600 MW of power. Constellation has 27 wind projects in ten states, totaling nearly 1,400 megawatts (MW). Constellation owns Constellation Generation Solutions (CGS). CGS functions as an industry-leading maintenance and technical services organization emphasizing precision and quality, structured to streamline

784-775: The Criterion Wind Project in Garrett County, Maryland , and to purchase 28 Clipper Liberty 2.5-MW wind turbines for the project. Construction was completed in December 2010. In May 2010, the firm acquired two natural gas combined-cycle generation facilities in Texas from Houston-based Navasota Holdings. The $ 365 million transaction included the Colorado Bend Energy Center, a 550-MW facility near Wharton, Texas, and Quail Run Energy Center,

833-786: The Federal Aviation Administration or the United States Department of Defense . NextEra Energy had filed obstruction evaluation cases for the construction of wind turbines in Oklahoma with the FAA in March 2018, but the FAA had yet to issue determinations at the time that the cease and desist order was issued. The construction of the wind farm was cancelled in May 2019. In 2022, NextEra paid $ 8 million for

882-532: The Nuclear Energy Institute . In February of that year, it filed a lawsuit against the Institute alleging that the trade group had inappropriately cut off its access to a database of nuclear power workers. The lawsuit stated NEE disagreed with the Institute's priorities and that the trade group was advocating for policies that would be damaging to NextEra Energy's business; it also alleged

931-522: The South Carolina Senate over a possible purchase of SCANA and Santee Cooper . Dominion Energy offered $ 14.6 billion to buy SCANA, but South Carolina lawmakers harshly criticized the proposal over a lack of future taxpayer relief. In February 2018, NextEra Energy floated a $ 15.9 billion proposal to buy Santee Cooper and briefed South Carolina lawmakers. In May 2018, NextEra Energy announced that it planned to buy Gulf Power Company ,

980-575: The Toys-R-Us distribution center in Flanders, New Jersey, what was then the largest rooftop solar array ever constructed. In March 2014, it agreed to acquire ETC ProLiance Energy, a supplier of natural gas to customers in several states. In November 2014, it completed its acquisition of Integrys Energy Services, a competitive retail electricity and natural gas subsidiary serving customers in 22 states. In September 2016, it completed its acquisition of

1029-462: The 5,900-acres of old cooling canals that stretch out adjacent to Biscayne Bay . Constellation Energy Constellation Energy Corporation is an American energy company headquartered in Baltimore, Maryland . The company provides electric power , natural gas , and energy management services. It has approximately two million customers across the continental United States. The company

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1078-527: The Democratic candidate in each race. The accomplice named "Rodriguez" ran as a sham candidate and siphoned away votes from the Democratic candidate, also named Rodriguez . The mailing campaign employed the language of the Democratic candidate and had the accomplice focusing on fixing health care, and fighting climate change, all paid for by new, out-of-state political committees. The Democrats lost by

1127-507: The Nuclear Waste Fund. NextEra Energy sought to deduct payments made between 2003 and 2010 for "the disposal of radioactive waste produced by nuclear power plants". In August 2018, NextEra Energy received a cease and desist order by Oklahoma state officials concerning the construction of wind turbines violating a state law intended to protect open air space. The law requires that developers obtain appropriate permitting from

1176-644: The Sentinel, FPL donated $ 14.15 million to a political ad nonprofit whose consultants were connected to one of the groups that paid for Goston's ads. FPL has also donated $ 20,000 to Perry’s political committee, Building a Prosperous Florida. The year before, Perry voted in support of NextEra’s exploratory fracking legislation while serving on the committee chaired by Artiles. Perry has accepted $ 13,500 in direct political donations from Florida utilities, including $ 1,000 from NextEra, according to campaign finance filings. In 2007, Florida's Public Service Commission rejected

1225-520: The StarTex brand was discontinued; Constellation served its existing customers instead. In May 2011, the company acquired MXenergy, a residential and small business energy provider with approximately half a million customers. In December 2011, it announced the acquisition of ONEOK Energy Marketing Co., a natural gas company with customers in the Midwest. In 2011, it contracted to construct and operate for

1274-548: The United States, including Maryland, California, Arizona, New Jersey, and Texas. In 2011, Constellation was contracted to construct and operate what was then the largest rooftop solar array ever constructed for the Toys-R-Us distribution center in Flanders, New Jersey. The company's offsite renewables service (CORe) provides access to offsite renewable energy projects through a retail power contract. CORe combines location-specific renewable energy purchases and certificates with

1323-855: The company moved to acquire 37 power stations in Maine , Massachusetts , and New Jersey . After a federal ruling would have limited the company's access to the New England power grid , FPL Group attempted to break off its purchase agreement in Maine, but ultimately completed the purchase in March 1999. Through the early 2000s, FPL Group was the subject of multiple merger discussions, including with Iberdrola , Entergy , and Constellation Energy . In 2005, FPL Group acquired Gexa Energy . The Environmental Protection Agency recognized FPL Group for achieving its goal to reduce its emissions by 21 percent per kilowatt hour in 2008. The FPL Group Foundation,

1372-711: The company or $ 311 per customer. In 2007, the company supported local agencies, chambers of commerce, economic development groups and the United Way as well as other charitable organizations with nearly $ 1.2 million. Gulf Power employees also contributed more than $ 80,000 to various philanthropies in northwest Florida. As of 2011, Gulf Power had reduced its overall plant emissions by 85 percent since 1992, while adding 135,000 customers over that time period. List of power stations in Florida NextEra Energy NextEra Energy, Inc.

1421-624: The company's philanthropic arm, donated $ 1 million to the Salvation Army in 2009 to help customers in danger of having service turned off pay their power bills. The following year, FPL Group rebranded as NextEra Energy. At the time, it provided power in 28 states and Canada . NextEra Energy subsidiary New Hampshire Transmission (NHT) reached a $ 6.8 million settlement with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) in 2016 after charging customers for

1470-412: The deal on December 17, 2008, in favor of a $ 4.5 billion buyout from French power company Electricite de France (EDF) . In January 2009, Constellation Energy announced it would sell the majority of its London-based international commodities business to an affiliate of Goldman Sachs for an undisclosed price. In April 2010, Constellation Energy closed its agreement with Clipper Windpower to acquire

1519-524: The deaths of over 150 eagles at wind farms missing eagle permits. In 2021, NextEra was accused of lobbying heavily against a transmission line project proposed by Avangrid, Inc . The 145-mile line, to be known as New England Clean Energy Connect (NECEC), would have delivered hydroelectric power from Quebec to utilities in Massachusetts and Maine. In a complaint to federal regulators, the rival company said NextEra had “taken every opportunity, both in

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1568-599: The development of an electric power transmission project that was not approved. During the 2016 Republican Party presidential primaries , NextEra Energy donated $ 1 million to a super PAC supporting Jeb Bush 's candidacy. In June 2005, FPL Energy, a subsidiary of FPL Group, acquired Houston -based Gexa Energy in June 2005 for $ 80.6 million. On December 4, 2014, NextEra Energy announced its plans to purchase Hawaiian Electric Industries for $ 4.3 billion. However, in July 2016, Hawaii 's Public Utilities Commission rejected

1617-606: The group was extorting NextEra Energy for $ 860,000 to regain access to the database. The Institute called the allegations "baseless". A judge in Florida rejected NEE's claims in September 2018. In June 2018, the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit rejected NextEra Energy's claim for a $ 97 million tax deduction for $ 200 million paid in contract fees to the federal government toward

1666-468: The largest electricity producer in Northwest Florida, from Southern Company in a $ 6.4 billion deal, pending approval from regulators. The acquisition, which expanded NextEra Energy's combined residential customer base in Florida to approximately 51 percent of the state's population and also included Florida City Gas, was completed on January 1, 2019. In 2018, NextEra Energy and Entergy left

1715-586: The largest of the subsidiaries, delivers rate-regulated electricity to approximately 5 million customer accounts, or an estimated 10 million people, across nearly half of Florida and is the third largest electric utility company in the United States. NEER, together with its affiliated entities, is the world's largest generator of renewable energy from wind and solar. In addition to wind and solar, NextEra Energy Resources owns and operates generating plants powered by natural gas, nuclear energy, and oil. As of 2020, approximately 41% of NextEra Energy's generating capacity

1764-574: The last several years, NextEra has been very aggressive against customer-owned solar,” says Alissa Schafer, a researcher with the Energy and Policy Institute, a clean energy advocacy group. In 2021, investigative reporting by the Miami Herald revealed that NextEra Energy had lobbied Florida legislators to undermine rooftop solar by preventing homeowners and businesses to engage in net metering (selling excess power back to FPL). NextEra Energy made

1813-516: The legislation claim that if such bills pass, the fast-growing green power industry would quickly start to collapse. In 2021, investigative reporting by the Orlando Sun Sentinel revealed that FPL funded political consultants more than $ 3 million to promote "ghost" spoiler candidates in key Florida legislature races. The spoiler candidates were on the ballot as a no-party option and were intended to confuse voters and dilute support for

1862-505: The northern Alabama border to the Gulf of Mexico . Gulf Power served 394,772 retail customers directly and another 14,128 customers through the wholesale delivery of electricity to one investor-owned electric utility and one municipality. Gulf Power Company was the largest single taxpayer in northwest Florida. The company’s city, county, state and federal taxes totaled $ 132.4 million for 2007 – amounting to 10.5 cents out of every dollar earned by

1911-530: The offer in a 2-0 vote over doubts of NextEra Energy's commitment to the state's renewable energy goal, which terminated the merger agreement. The proposed merger had support from over 25 local groups, including the Hawaii State AFL–CIO and the Hawaii Chamber of Commerce . NextEra Energy and Energy Future Holdings , parent company of Texas -based utility Oncor Electric Delivery , reached

1960-508: The open and behind the scenes, to oppose, delay, and derail” the project, including funding opposition groups because the hydropower would have provided competition to NextEra's oil-fired power plant in Yarmouth. “In doing so,” Avangrid wrote, “NextEra is purposely trying to thwart the goals of Maine and Massachusetts to obtain more renewable power.” According to Daily Energy Insider , Avangrid had obtained every regulatory approval required at

2009-542: The power company's 3,705 megawatt Martin County plant. The activists claimed that the Martin County power plant's water use had caused the forest's health to decline. Much of the evidence behind such claims came from research conducted by Hydro-ecologist Dr. Sydney Bacchus. Dr. Bacchus claimed that the power plant's water use had caused "surficial aquifer drawdown". According to Dr Bacchus, the ecosystem perishes when

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2058-485: The protection of pristine woodlands. NextEra Energy has backed failed ballot amendment campaigns to impose fees and barriers to installations of rooftop solar panels. In 2016, Florida Power & Light, which is a subsidiary of NextEra Energy, joined forces with Devon Energy , and Tampa Electric Company . As a group they spent $ 20 million promoting a failed ballot initiative in Florida that would have curbed rooftop solar installations. It drew criticism from Al Gore. “Over

2107-503: The retail electricity and natural gas business from ConEdison Solutions, a subsidiary of Consolidated Edison , Inc. In the purchase, Constellation acquired ConEdison's retail electricity and natural gas customer contracts and associated supply contracts serving approximately 15 TWh of electricity and 1 billion cubic feet per annum (28,000,000 m /a) of natural gas to more than 560,000 commercial, industrial, public sector and residential customers. In August 2018, it began constructing

2156-562: The roots of the trees become exposed due to the lower water table. In 2018, the 11th Circuit in Atlanta rejected NextEra's request for a $ 97M refund on costs related to the cleaning up of nuclear waste between 1969 and 1995. In 2019, the Florida Supreme Court concluded that NextEra Energy could charge Florida ratepayers for over $ 132M in cleanup costs at its Turkey Point plant, caused by hypersaline water leaking out of

2205-401: The state and federal levels, and the project was supported by Maine Gov. Janet Mills , Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker, U.S. Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm , and the stateʻs major newspapers. In November 2021, the voters of Maine approved a ballot initiative to prohibit construction of the $ 1 billion transmission line project, which had been represented as a choice between clean energy and

2254-641: The urgent demands of our nation's nuclear facilities, power grids, and critical supply chains. Constellation owns the archives of the Baltimore Gas & Electric Company, the former Consolidated Gas Light, Electric Power Company of Baltimore City, and its ancient predecessor, the Gas Light Company of Baltimore. The Baltimore Gas & Electric Company's photographic collection consists of approximately 250,000 photographic prints and negatives, in more than 50,000 series The archives are held by

2303-494: The work execution of the nuclear fleet. Constellation PowerLabs is a wholly owned subsidiary of Constellation. Since 1911, PowerLabs has transformed from supporting the power industry to becoming Exelon's primary calibrations and testing laboratory. It has four individual labs strategically located from the upper Midwest to the Northeast, enabling experienced staff in engineering, metrology, and nuclear power generation to support

2352-482: Was from fossil fuels and non-renewables. The company ranked 167th on the 2018 Fortune 500 of the largest United States corporations by revenue. NextEra Energy traces its origins to 1925 with the formation of Florida Power & Light and the formation of FPL Group in 1984. The company purchased Colonial Penn in 1985 and sold it in 1991. In 1998, FPL Group created FPL Energy, a subsidiary to manage FPL Group efforts outside of FPL's service area. The same year,

2401-453: Was known as Constellation Energy Group (former NYSE ticker symbol CEG), a Fortune 500 company and one of the largest electricity producers in the United States, until a merger with Exelon in 2012. When FERC approved the acquisition, Constellation Energy's energy supply business was re-branded as Constellation, an Exelon company. As part of the 2012 merger, Baltimore Gas and Electric , the regulated utility operated by Constellation Energy, became

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