Progress Energy Incorporated

Coal plants hit by groups in pollution plan

2013-06-13 18:10:00

TALLAHASSEE — Environmentalists are questioning Florida's latest plans to comply with federal clean-air requirements without mandating that two of its heaviest-polluting coal-fired power plants meet the stricter pollution limits. Last month, the...

Environmental groups questioning DEP air-pollution plan

2013-06-13 08:39:00

TALLAHASSEE -- Environmentalists are�questioning Florida's latest�plans to comply with federal clean air�requirements without mandating that two of its heaviest-polluting coal-fired power�plants meet the stricter pollution limits. Last month, the...

Records show overlap between campaign cash and legislation

2013-04-11 16:36:23

Customers are 'dumb money' for utilities

2013-02-06 17:32:00

If you're a Progress Energy customer and you've looked yourself in the mirror lately, you're looking at "dumb money." Those aren't my words. That's how an energy policy wonk described customers who get saddled with financial risk when utilities take...

Take Legislature, elections out of PSC process

2013-01-23 18:07:00

We're supposed to believe that Florida's system for selecting the people who set our utility rates is fair and free of political meddling. That's a bigger fake-out than Manti Te'o's girlfriend. The Legislature controls the selection of Public...

Across Florida, legislative candidates sidestep fundraising caps

2012-11-01 16:32:36

In secret, Enterprise Florida hears utility-funded report

2012-10-25 16:35:33

CFB Top Employers 2012 footnotes

2012-10-26 13:24:00

Adventist:�Excludes 2,954 per-diem workers; includes Florida Hospital system and several Adventist Care Center nursing homes. Comcast:�Universal Orlando resort; excludes local cable-TV operations. Orlando Health:�Excludes 1,632 per-diem workers; does...

Yes, you can fight City Hall — and win

2012-09-05 15:31:00

There's something satisfying about watching somebody decide that they can fight City Hall. Maybe it's the idea that the little guy, if he tries hard enough, does stand a chance against the big-moneyed interests or a stubborn bureaucracy. Or perhaps we're...

Reader gets response (but no comfort) from Public Service Commission

2012-08-28 08:03:00

In a recent column about the Public Service Commission's soft-ball questioning of the new Progress Energy boss (Duke Energy CEO Jim Rogers), I encouraged fuming readers to write to the commission and make their outrage known.� After all, it is the Public...

Abstaining from votes dogs Orange Commissioner Edwards again

2012-07-22 18:59:00

Thirty-eight times in the past 18 months, Orange County Commissioner Ted Edwards has abstained from voting on public business because, if he had, it could be perceived as benefiting his financial interests. An Orlando Sentinel analysis of 600 recorded...

Here's an issue Progress-Duke and customers can agree on

2012-08-14 08:30:00

As a postscript to today's column about Progress-Duke Energy and Florida's Public Service Commission, here's an issue we can all agree on: It is in the best interests of not only Progress Energy Florida and new owner Duke Energy, but also consumers for...

Progress Energy workers restore power to Windemere homes off 2nd ave. after a violent storm swept through Windermere Sunday (Red Huber / Orlando Sentinel)

2013-03-25 00:00:00

Duke Energy's Plant Allen in Belmont, N.C. The company's merger with Progress Energy came with a twisty executive switch.

2012-07-06 10:36:00

Work to correct delamination problems is under way at the Crystal River nuclear plant, seen in a June 2011 file photo.

2011-06-14 00:00:00