FPL Bogus Program

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Now you can help promote energy independence while preserving our environment.

By choosing Sunshine Energy?, a renewable energy program offered by Florida Power & Light Company, you can have a positive impact on our energy future. That’s because Sunshine Energy is American-made and generated from renewable sources like wind, bioenergy and the sun.

For each month you’re enrolled in the Sunshine Energy program, FPL ensures that 1,000 kWh of electricity from cleaner sources is produced by generators in Florida and other states. Your participation in the program creates important environmental benefits in the areas where this cleaner, renewable electricity is generated.


A simple, affordable way to do your part

Sunshine Energy is surprisingly affordable: for only $9.75 more a month, added to your FPL bill, you can help reduce your household’s share of carbon dioxide (C02) emissions and promote a more secure energy future. Nothing with your FPL service changes and no installation is required.

Is this a scam or what! This is the second time I have receive this offering from FPL. I ignored the first one but it now appears they are going to push the program. I refuse to be an investor for FPL's profit machine and my only dividen is that i should feel good about myself.

Don't get me wrong, I am all for saving the environment and investing renewable energies. It just seems to me like this prgram is playing on the emotions of the general public and really will not have any direct impact on the citizens of this state.

 

[jghrist]

One person's scam is another person's Renewable Portfolio. Seriously, this is probably FPL's response to some state requirement to establish a program to promote renewable energy. Since it costs more to produce electricity with renewable sources, someone has to pay. It seems like a good program to me to have suckers roll: oops, strike that) environmentally concious consumers put their money where their mouth is so that the rest of us can just pay for electricity at the lowest price.

See http://www.floridapsc.com/utilities...ergy/12_06_2007_FPL_Tom_Hartman.ppt#271,1,FPL Proposal for a Florida Renewable Portfolio Standard

 

[jdsmith]

But look at the price...

But look at the price...

An additional $9.75 for 1000 kWh of renewable power? 97.5 cents for one kWh, on top of the normal generation rate? Without any tax breaks or anything, I could make some good money on that arrangement. Given that they probably haven't installed any new renewable sources, but are simply pitching the ones they have a little more aggressively, it sounds like a scam to me. I've gone through the calculations of the equivalent kWh cost of a 7.7 kW PV array located in Cincinnati and the cost per kWh, with product life and maintenance factored in, was much less the $1.10 or 97 cents. With a grid interactive (no battery) system, I'm thinking my generation cost was 45 cents or something. I'll have to see if I can find my calculations. Regardless, PV is about the most expensive alternative electricity source out there, and there are significant tax deals in some areas.

 

[petersonra]

If you want supposed green energy sources, someone has to pay for them, since they all cost a LOT more than traditional sources. Especially in Florida.

 

[weressl]

An additional $9.75 for 1000 kWh of renewable power? 97.5 cents for one kWh, on top of the normal generation rate? Without any tax breaks or anything, I could make some good money on that arrangement. Given that they probably haven't installed any new renewable sources, but are simply pitching the ones they have a little more aggressively, it sounds like a scam to me. I've gone through the calculations of the equivalent kWh cost of a 7.7 kW PV array located in Cincinnati and the cost per kWh, with product life and maintenance factored in, was much less the $1.10 or 97 cents. With a grid interactive (no battery) system, I'm thinking my generation cost was 45 cents or something. I'll have to see if I can find my calculations. Regardless, PV is about the most expensive alternative electricity source out there, and there are significant tax deals in some areas.

Yeah, look at the price it is less than 1 cent per kWhr, 0.975 cents. Pesky decimals...... I still do not understand why they would not just let the marketplace take care of itself.