Comments on: FPL CEO: We Haven't Seen A Dime of the Smart Grid Stimulus http://gigaom.com/cleantech/fpl-ceo-we-havent-seen-a-dime-of-the-smart-grid-stimulus/ Sun, 27 May 2012 20:49:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Smart Grid Stimulus Funds Finally Trickling In – Earth2Tech http://gigaom.com/cleantech/fpl-ceo-we-havent-seen-a-dime-of-the-smart-grid-stimulus/#comment-31567 Wed, 24 Mar 2010 14:58:46 +0000 http://earth2tech.com/?p=52658#comment-31567 [...] conference earlier this month, the CEO of Florida power company FPL Group, Lewis Hay III, expressed his concern that his company had not seen “a dime” of the $200 million smart grid stimulus grant it had [...]

]]> By: Smart Grid Blog » Blog Archive » FPL CEO: We Haven’t Seen A Dime of the Smart Grid Stimulus http://gigaom.com/cleantech/fpl-ceo-we-havent-seen-a-dime-of-the-smart-grid-stimulus/#comment-31566 Sat, 13 Mar 2010 05:45:36 +0000 http://earth2tech.com/?p=52658#comment-31566 [...] via FPL CEO: We Haven’t Seen A Dime of the Smart Grid Stimulus. [...]

]]> By: It’s Official: No Taxes on DOE’s Smart Grid Stimulus Grants http://gigaom.com/cleantech/fpl-ceo-we-havent-seen-a-dime-of-the-smart-grid-stimulus/#comment-31565 Wed, 10 Mar 2010 21:44:56 +0000 http://earth2tech.com/?p=52658#comment-31565 [...] week, FPL Group CEO Lewis Hay III told a conference that his utility hadn’t “seen a dime” of the $200 million DOE smart grid grant it had been promised. His complaints echoed others in the [...]

]]> By: It’s About Time: Glendale Gets First DOE Smart Grid Stimulus Contract http://gigaom.com/cleantech/fpl-ceo-we-havent-seen-a-dime-of-the-smart-grid-stimulus/#comment-31564 Thu, 04 Mar 2010 21:41:55 +0000 http://earth2tech.com/?p=52658#comment-31564 [...] in the day, we cited Florida Power & Light CEO, Lewis Hay III, saying that the utility hadn’t “seen a dime” of its $200 million smart grid grant — a complaint that’s been echoed by other smart grid [...]

]]> By: westwood http://gigaom.com/cleantech/fpl-ceo-we-havent-seen-a-dime-of-the-smart-grid-stimulus/#comment-31563 Thu, 04 Mar 2010 20:44:02 +0000 http://earth2tech.com/?p=52658#comment-31563 Is this surprising? The consequences of beaurocracy are inevitable. Additionally, what about environmental licencing or environmental impact assessments for these projects? I assume many of them may trigger these, and that is a long process in and of itself.

]]> By: CHris http://gigaom.com/cleantech/fpl-ceo-we-havent-seen-a-dime-of-the-smart-grid-stimulus/#comment-31562 Thu, 04 Mar 2010 20:01:48 +0000 http://earth2tech.com/?p=52658#comment-31562 $200M is a lot of tax payer dollars. The government needs to make sure that recipients like FPL have plans for the grants that match the public’s expectations on how the $$ will be used. Checking every facet of a plan to spend $200M takes time (not to mention almost $4B). Especially for an organization that has natural barriers to quickly increasing staffing levels (such as laws forcing employee retention).

What is worse: FPL having to wait a few extra months for the grants or two years down the line it becoming public that $5M of the FPL grant went towards corporate pork?

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