Currents
February 2018
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FOMO
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urrents reported last year
on the City’s exploration of
a partnership with Florida Power
& Light (FPL) to install solar
power pods and bus benches in
the City Hall parking lot. All
installation expenses, as well as
maintenance costs are to be born
by FP&L. Moreover, FP&L will
pay the City per kilowatt gener-
ated by the facilities.
The proposal was pasted at
each public reading but was
unanimously killed at the January
9 meeting. Not much in the way
of discussion on the matter. The
only vaguely articulated reason
for the failure to support renew-
able energy and free income for
the City, was the length of the
contract - 15 years. Commis-
sioner Hardin said: “they are not
doing it out of the goodness of
their heart. Technology is chang-
ing too fast, and this locks us in
for 15 years,” he said. Commis-
sioner Barry Moss agreed. “Com-
missioner Hardin took the words
out of my mouth. In 15 years,
technology will change in leaps
and bounds; we will be stuck with
a bad deal.” “[N]ot doing it out of
the goodness of their heart.”
“technology will change in leaps
and bounds; we will be stuck with
a bad deal.” Gentlemen, please
explain yourselves. What could
possibly change to make free
energy and free income a “bad
deal”?
So as some estimates place
the annual value of the free
energy resell to FP&L at a few
thousand dollars, that can be a
good safe income stream. The
contract term was fifteen years,
at say thirty five hundred dollars
a year, equals more than fifty
thousand dollars. Benefits: $50k,
renewable energy, no cost to pro-
viding light and bus stop rain cov-
erage. Costs: Space in the park-
ing lot. Nah, no thanks.
The City is suffering from
FOMO, (fear of missing out). We
could get stuck with out dated
solar equipment in a 15 year
lease. One might expect that
logic to come from the Trump
White House, not Broward
County Florida. For the times,
they are a changing, to quote
Dylan.
2018 Florida Legislature
The 2018 Florida Legisla-
ture’s session is underway with a
lame duck governor, who is indu-
bitably a U.S. Senate candidate,
and his $87.4 billion budget. The
60-day session started early
because this year it is an election
year for the 120 House seats and
half of the state’s 40 senators.
Senate Bill 874 by state Sen.
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