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State report backs nuclear power as clean energy

State report backs nuclear power as clean energy

By CHRISTINE STAPLETON

Palm Beach Post Staff Writer

Wednesday, December 31, 2008

Florida’s energy future should be “clean” – not just “renewable” – and include nuclear power as a source of green energy, according to recommendations from the staff of utility regulators released Wednesday.

The 111-page report is the latest step in the debate over whether power companies can count new nuclear power toward their obligation to generate renewable energy…………………………. The report follows months of lobbying by Florida Power & Light – the state’s largest utility and producer of nuclear power – to persuade regulators to create a “Clean Energy Portfolio Standard” rather than a “Renewable Portfolio Standard.” Florida statues do not include nuclear power in the definition of “renewable” energy. FPL generates no renewable energy in Florida………………..Including nuclear power in the green energy mix “could make it easier” for investor-owned utilities, such as FPL, to meet an earlier deadline to go green.

State report backs nuclear power as clean energy

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