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JEA eyes solar farms and new natural gas plant in coming years

JEA has some small-scale solar farms such as arrays on JEA property at the Brandy Branch Generating Station.
Rick Wilson
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Florida Times-Union
JEA has some small-scale solar farms such as arrays on JEA property at the Brandy Branch Generating Station.

As utilities roll out plans for how they will cut back on greenhouse gas emissions that contribute to climate change, JEA has been meeting with representatives of businesses, nonprofits, local governments, and environmental groups to forge a plan for how it will produce electricity in the decades to come.

It's a mix of perspectives that's guaranteed to generate live-wire debate.

"We have never had a dull meeting," Laura Marshall Schepis, chief external affairs officer, told the JEA board's Finance Committee during a recent update on the plan.

Read the rest of this story at the Florida Times-Union, a WJCT News partner.