Forum Title: Bogus FPL Program
Quote Now you can help promote energy independence while preserving our environment.By choosing Sunshine Energy®, a renewable energy program offered by Florida Power & Light Company, you can have a positive impact on our energy future. That’s because Sunshine Energy is American-made and generated from renewable sources like wind, bioenergy and the sun. For each month you’re enrolled in the Sunshine Energy program, FPL ensures that 1,000 kWh of electricity from cleaner sources is produced by generators in Florida and other states. Your participation in the program creates important environmental benefits in the areas where this cleaner, renewable electricity is generated.A simple, affordable way to do your partSunshine Energy is surprisingly affordable: for only $9.75 more a month, added to your FPL bill, you can help reduce your household’s share of carbon dioxide (C02) emissions and promote a more secure energy future. Nothing with your FPL service changes and no installation is required. Is this a scam or what! This is the second time I have received this offering from FPL. I ignored the first one but it now appears they are going to push the program. I refuse to be an investor for FPL's profit machine and my only dividen is that I should feel good about myself.Don't get me wrong, I am all for saving the environment and investing renewable energies. It just seems to me like this prgram is playing on the emotions of the general public and really will not have any direct impact on the citizens of this state.
Category: General Electrical Discussion Post By: Irene J (Silver City, NM), 03/23/2017
Most of this "energy/CO2" business is simply playing on emotion. We are going to run out of water long before we run out of oil and that will have a whole lot greater impact on the human population. That is why things like "ethanol" are such a boondoggle.

- Larry B Llc (East Gaffney, SC), 03/25/2017

It's only a scam in the sense that renewables aren't as cost effective as coal or other power generation methods. This sounds like $9.75 covers the delta for 1000kWh produced by solar, wind, etc vice coal. It's only adding about 1 cent per kWh, which actually sounds like quite a good deal, considering those alternate energy sources are WAY more expensive than that; you can feel good knowing your hard earned money is already supporting a greener future through subsidies paid directly from your tax dollars, and subsidies paid indirectly through your electric bill as pocos are required to go "green" with expensive inefficient plants.Ethanol is a boondoggle for reasons completely unrelated to oil- namely, it takes more energy to farm, process and distribute a gallon of ethanol from corn, soy, switchgrass or any other North American crop than you get from burning it. Only sugar cane has a net energy return, but that's not really an option here. Most of that energy is coming from coal, though, so we do have the benefit of at least trading oil imports for domestic coal production... but it's certainly not helping the environment at all.

- Melissa H (Elk, MI), 03/25/2017

I don't necessarily see this as a scam, but what exactly do you get for your $9.75 a month other than a warm fuzzy feeling that you're helping the planet?Why not spend it to do something that will decrease your bill while reducing your usage of energy?

- R&d Hengeveld'so Hvac Llc. (Pierce City, MO), 03/25/2017

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