Experiments with electric propulsion have been around nearly as long as the dawn of the car industry in the early 1900s, a Progress Energy expert Mike Waters told Pasco county commissioners at a Tuesday workshop. It wasn't until the 1920s when cheap gasoline led to total dominance of the market by the internal combustion engine. ...more

November 14, 2009

A federal stimulus grant of $200 million announced this week will help charge a smart grid for Progress Energy Florida customers. ...more

October 31, 2009

About five miles north of Arcadia, well hidden from public view, is a grove of solar gathering cells, each about the size of a sheet of plywood. They reflect, President Barack Obama said today, "the visionary leadership at Florida Power & Light." ...more

October 28, 2009

Progress Energy Florida has delayed a rate increase meant to help pay for construction of a nuclear power plant not long after it sets an all-time high for peak demand. ...more

February 18, 2009

but it's traveling in the slow lane. High oil prices have accomplished what years of pleas from environmentalists and energy-security hawks could not: forcing the world's major automakers to refocus their engineers and their capital on devising mass-market alternatives to century-old petroleum-fueled engine technology. ...more

September 16, 2008

Which draws more juice from the electric grid, a big-screen plasma television or recharging a plug-in hybrid car? ...more

July 26, 2008

The glowing amber dot on a light switch in the entryway of George Tsapoitis' house offers a clue about the future of electricity. ...more

May 12, 2008