Leaked: US power companies secretly spending millions to protect profits and fight clean energy
by Mario Alejandro Ariza and Miranda Green for Floodl from on (#61VKG)
One industry consulting firm has influenced politics across Florida, Alabama and at least six other states
The CEO of the biggest power company in the US had a problem. A Democratic state senator was proposing a law that could cut into Florida Power & Light's (FPL) profits. Landlords would be able to sell cheap rooftop solar power directly to their tenants - bypassing FPL and its monopoly on electricity.
I want you to make his life a living hell ... seriously," FPL's CEO Eric Silagy wrote in a 2019 email to two of his vice-presidents about state Senator Jose Javier Rodriguez, who proposed the legislation.
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