The president's off-the-cuff remarks came a day after he dined with a former lobbyist for FirstEnergy, the coal-bound Ohio utility that requested a bailout for the plants.
Selling the 400 MW of wind and solar located in Ontario, will allow NextEra to "recycle" capital back into the U.S. to take advantage of the lower corporate tax rate.
Instead of forecasts, utilities like Hawaiian Electric and Xcel are beginning to use real-world prices in their integrated resource plans, allowing them to better compare renewables and DERs to traditional grid investments.
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