A.G. GancarskiSeptember 9, 2019Tag: Florida Power and Light
A.G. GancarskiSeptember 9, 2019
A.G. GancarskiAugust 12, 2019
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Guest AuthorMarch 15, 2019
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"The amendment is being sold as energy freedom, and who wouldn’t like more freedom to choose? I say beware."
A.G. GancarskiNovember 6, 2018
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Duval County voters on Tuesday approved a nonbinding referendum suggesting that the Jacksonville City Council must first approve a sale of 10 percent or more of the municipal utility (JEA). While JEA has an independent board, the push to privatize the utility that started a year ago led Council members to want increased checks and […]
Staff ReportsSeptember 11, 2018
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Utility crews from throughout the Southeast sent crews to help Florida’s utilities recover from hurricanes. Now, with Hurricane Florence bearing down on the Carolinas, Florida utilities are returning the favor. Tampa Electric Co. has dispatched 250 line workers to backstop Duke Energy crews in North and South Carolina. They began the two-day drive Tuesday morning and […]
A.G. GancarskiJune 7, 2018
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With just weeks to go in Anna Brosche‘s Jacksonville City Council presidency, the majority of special committees formed during her year are coming to an end. That rule applies to what is now known as the special committee on the “future of JEA,” a change in name and scope from its original five-person iteration as a group […]
A.G. GancarskiApril 17, 2018
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On Tuesday, the board of Jacksonville’s public utility JEA picked former board member Aaron Zahn as its new interim CEO to serve for the next year. Meanwhile, CFO Melissa Dykes was elevated to a role beyond CFO, in a role that the org chart has yet to define. Also undefined: compensation and how the two […]
Peter SchorschMarch 3, 2018
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Utility company Florida Power & Light announced the sites of four solar power plants expected to be brought online by the middle of next year. The sites are in Columbia, Miami-Dade, St. Lucie and Volusia counties. Construction is slated to start later this year and will create about 200 jobs per plant, FPL said. “With […]
A.G. GancarskiFebruary 8, 2018
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As Jacksonville considers the increasingly less hypothetical question of whether or not to sell its public utility, JEA, a bill (2018-101) filed this week would earmark any proceeds. The bill, filed by Republican City Councilman Matt Schellenberg, would set up a restricted reserve account, which would require a two-thirds vote to access funds therein. In a conversation Thursday […]