"Forget the bobblehead strategy..."

[kristopher]

The bobblehead comment is further along in the article when the discussion turns to the controversy caused by the attempt by the nuclear industry to shift what should be their financial risk onto the backs of ratepayers.

St. Petersburg Times, Fla., Robert Trigaux column Sunday, August 14, 2011 1:46 PM

...State regulators in Tallahassee will be busy listening with sympathetic ears to Progress Energy Florida and FPL, Florida's two largest providers of electricity. The utilities will argue that fast-escalating surcharges they plan to add to their customers' monthly bills in the coming years are the best option to help prepay the massive and still-rising price tags for new nuclear power plants, which are not expected to come online for many years.

And a little-known firm in Melbourne expects to announce where -- in either rural Florida or Georgia or North Carolina -- it will choose to build a 4,000-acre, 400-megawatt complex of solar farms.

Not only will this complex represent one of the largest solar farms in the country. The firm behind it also plans to sell its sun-generated power to the local electric company at a price that will not require the utility to charge its customers a premium for tapping a renewable energy source like solar.

Let me repeat that: Solar power, says National Solar Power CEO James Scrivener, will be sold to the local power company at no extra charge to customers.

"We are market competitive," says Scrivener...

http://www.istockanalyst.com/business/news/5356694/st-petersburg-times-fla-robert-trigaux-column

[AndyTiedye]

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