NextEra is ‘living proof’ utilities can be clean, low-cost, profitable: CEO

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Proclaiming NextEra Energy as “living proof” that a power companycan be “clean, low-cost and financially successful all at the sametime,” the company’s CEO on Friday described ambitious plans toexpand a “trifecta” of wind, solar and storage projects in 2020 andbeyond.Florida Power & Light, NextEra’s main utility subsidiary, in thespring announced a “30-by-30” plan, in which FPL would install 30million solar panels by 2030, adding about 10 GW of solar to FPL’sgeneration fleet, said Jim Robo, NextEra Energy’s chairman and CEO,during Friday’s earnings conference call.Also, NextEra Energy Resources, which develops and operatesrenewable plants on a merchant basis backed up by power purchaseagreements, added 5.8 MW of generation in 2019 to its backlog ofprojects in what Robo described as “the best renewables developmentenvironment in our history.”