Only 10,000 Florida utility customers sign up for Sunshine Energy program.

Publication: The Miami Herald (Miami, Florida) (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune Business News)

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COPYRIGHT 2005 The Miami Herald

Byline: John Dorschner

Feb. 24--A year after Florida Power & Light announced a voluntary program to help fund cleaner methods of generating power, less than a third of 1 percent of the utility's residential customers have signed up to spend $9.75 a month for the project.

About 10,000 of the 3.6 million residential customers have volunteered for Sunshine Energy, says FPL spokeswoman Pat Davis.

Each volunteer is buying 1,000 kilowatt-hours of renewable energy -- wind, solar or other environmentally friendly sources -- that is purchased from places outside Florida.

In addition, the utility plans to...

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