Those green m&m's are getting greener. A New Jersey candy factory that produces m&m's flipped the switch Monday on a dedicated solar array that is the largest in the nation to serve a single manufacturing complex, according to Public Service Enterprise Group Inc. ...more

November 10, 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

Arcadia is betting that solar energy — more specifically, a cutting-edge solar plant being built in DeSoto County — will provide hundreds of jobs and an even bigger economic boost. ...more

October 27, 2009

Operators at Progress Energy's nuclear power plant in Crystal River shut the reactor down on Monday when some control rods dropped into the core, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission said. There were no safety problems, radiation release or damage to the plant from the shut-down, said NRC spokesman Roger Hannah. ...more

August 26, 2009

Tampa Electric has completed construction of two natural gas-fired peaking units - each capable of generating 60 megawatts of power - at the utility's Bayside Power Station. ...more

April 28, 2009

Tampa Electric has completed the construction of two natural gas-fired peaking units — each capable of generating 60 megawatts of power — at the utility's Bayside Power Station. The units are designed to provide power during periods of peak demand. The utility plans to build three more peaking units by September. ...more

April 27, 2009

Hotel Bookings Fall In Tampa Area The number of hotel rooms booked in January declined 5.7 percent in the Tampa-St. Petersburg region compared with 5.4 percent for Florida and 7.7 percent for the United States, a Tennessee travel industry consultant reported. ...more

March 25, 2009

Progress Energy and its Florida customers are generating more than 1 megawatt of solar power, a "significant" milestone for the St. Petersburg-based utility, company officials said Monday. ...more

March 24, 2009

Thirty-one states have one. Florida may be the next state to adopt a standard for generating electricity from renewable resources. ...more

March 22, 2009

Tampa Electric, which long has been jeered by environmentalists for its reliance on coal, said Monday it has entered a partnership to build one of the largest solar power plants in the nation in Polk County. ...more

March 10, 2009