This story is an interesting read if you want to understand how Ontario came to be overrun by utility-scale wind power, in spite of made-in-Ontario technology available for energy efficient strategies for home owners and business, and communities that wanted to do community-scale renewable power (i.e., NOT gigantic, invasive, environment-destroying, wildlife-killing, industrial noise level power plants).
The company we know in Ontario as NextEra is the renewable power subsidiary of utility Florida Power and Light, or FPL Energy. FPL is currently under fire from environmentalists for “crushing” initiatives to help people become more energy efficient.
Why?
FPL doesn’t make money when consumers conserve. (In Ontario, consumers PAY more when we conserve, but that’s because Ontario is down another Alice In Wonderland rabbit hole entirely.)
The fact is, Ontario could have gone another way–we could have helped homeowners and businesses reduce demand on the electricity grid, we could have had small-scale renewable energy solutions, we could have had real community power projects … but that’s not what Big Wind wanted.
Read the story of FPL here.