Its members include Duke, Exelon, NRG, PNM Resources, FPL Group, ConocoPhillips and BP America.
They are: Constellation, Duke, EDF International North America, Entergy, Exelon, FPL Group, Progress, SCANA, Southern Co.
"A lot of credit goes to the Europeans, " says Mike O'Sullivan, FPL Energy's senior vice-president for development.
This October, FPL Energy will inaugurate the world's largest wind farm, Horse Hollow Wind Energy Center in Abilene, Tex.
Citing higher capital costs, FPL suspended engineering and construction work on its project, located 25 miles south of Miami.
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They are: Constellation, Duke, EDF International North America, Entergy, Exelon, FPL Group (nyse: FPL - news - people ), Progress, SCANA, Southern Co.
In addition, some Florida adults below the poverty line already get coverage through Medicaid: jobless parents (below 22 percent of FPL) and working parents (below 56 percent of FPL).
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The schools buy "renewable-energy credits" from providers like Community Energy and FPL Energy to ensure that wind and other clean power sources feed the grid that provides their electricity.
Raising the FPL to 133% increases the Medicaid ranks while unemployment remains above 6% (6% and below, the rolls drop significantly and more people will be on exchanges or in employer covered plans).
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Without question, if dropped, most employees making under 400% FPL will find their way to an exchange, whether state or federally-run, to pick up the subsidy, ballooning the total cost of the law.
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When the feds coaxed states to expand their Medicaid programs up to 133% of FPL, they wanted to make sure that kids followed their parents into the program (presumably so that families would be covered under the same insurance schemes, making managed care easier).
With a crossover point of about 300 percent of FPL for those aged 30 to 44, we estimate that about one-third of those older than age 29 with incomes greater than 138 percent FPL will see higher premiums even after accounting for premium assistance.
He's talking mainly about the United States Climate Action Partnership, a broad coalition of conglomerates, environmental organizations and businesses including DuPont, ConocoPhillips, FPL Group and Ford Motor Co.. Last week the group sent a letter to Lieberman and Warner, generally voicing support for their proposal.
But this provision is separate from the language that offers states enhanced matching funds to expand their overall Medicaid programs up to 133% of FPL. That means that the impact on the CHIP kids will take effect regardless of what the states choose to do with the rest of their program.
Among Conrad's picks for good yields and reasonable growth: Dominion Resources (nyse: D - news - people ), Cinergy (nyse: CIN - news - people ), FPL Group (nyse: FPL - news - people ) and Keyspan Energy (nyse: KSE - news - people ).
The only thing going on here, is that the Fed will remove money from Medicare, Health Insurance Companies, Drug Companies, Medical Device Providers, and other select groups with very good health insurance and re-distribute this money as either free health insurance (medicaid, from 0 to 133% of FPL) or heavily subsidized health insurance (from 134% to 400% of FPL).
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