State regulators have ruled against Florida Power & Light Co., rejecting the company’s bid to build a clean coal power plant in Glades County.
Juno Beach-based FP&L said it is deeply disappointed in the four voting members of the Florida Public Service Commission’s unanimous decision on Tuesday.
For the last several years, the company said it has [...]

The state environmental protection agency has sent Florida Power & Light Co.’s application to build an advanced-technology “clean coal” plant in Glades County back to the utility, saying it needs more information on things such as a construction schedule, pollution-control equipment and how it will deal with landfill waste.
At the same time, FPL told state [...]

An official for the Everglades and Dry Tortugas National Parks said Tuesday that Florida Power & Light Co. must address how its proposed “clean” coal plant in Glades County will affect the parks’ air quality before it moves ahead with the project.
“You can’t impact a Class 1 airshed, and they have to address that,” said [...]

Iberdrola SA, the world’s largest owner of wind-power plants, bought U.S. energy developers MREC Partners and Midwest Renewable Energy Projects LLC, as the company seeks to capitalize on rebounding alternative energy in the U.S.
Iberdrola spent more than 30 million euros ($38 million) for the companies, which have a combined pipeline of 1,600 megawatts of projects [...]

The president of Shell Oil, in Miami for a speech, says it’s time to embrace new energy sources.
In the wake of last year’s hurricanes, the United States narrowly averted a major disruption to its fuel supply on a scale “inconceivable in recent memory,” says Shell Oil Co. president John Hofmeister.
A year later, Hofmeister says he [...]