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Ivan Penn

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Covers:  nuclear energy, teco energy, duke energy, consumer affairs, power plants, tampa electric, florida power & light, natural gas, utilities
Ivan Penn is a Los Angeles-based energy correspondent for @nytimes, 2006 @JSKstanford fellow, graduate of @UofMaryland and 2014 @LoebAwards winner.

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Ivan Penn covers utilities and consumer issues for the Tampa Bay Times. He studied at the University of Maryland, College Park, where he majored in journalism and became the editor of The Diamondback daily student newspaper. He began his professional journalism career in 1992 as a reporter and computer assisted researcher for the Miami Herald. A year later, he returned home to Maryland, where he worked for the Baltimore Sun for 12 1/2 years. While on the John S. Knight Fellowship at Stanford Un…

Ivan Penn’s Journalist Portfolio

Levy nuclear plant more costly than a natural gas facility

Levy nuclear plant more costly than a natural gas facility

In the long run, nuclear power is cheap. This, for many of Florida's top decisionmakers, is the Truth. Lawmak…

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Florida lawmakers toughen guidelines for using nuclear advance fee

Florida lawmakers toughen guidelines for using nuclear advance fee

In the short term, Duke Energy can keep collecting the "advance fee" money already approved for the Levy Coun…

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Nuclear advance fee case in front of Florida Supreme Court has big implications

Nuclear advance fee case in front of Florida Supreme Court has big implications

Should you be forced to pay in advance for a product you may never get? And if you don't get what you paid fo…

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Crystal River nuclear plant: $1.3B and counting

Crystal River nuclear plant: $1.3B and counting

How much does nothing cost? For Duke Energy customers in Florida, the answer may be $1.3 billion. Over the ne…

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Duke Energy announces closing of Crystal River nuclear power plant

Duke Energy announces closing of Crystal River nuclear power plant

Seldom, if ever, has an attempt to save $15 million cost so many, so much. Progress Energy tried to self-mana…

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How an ambitious energy giant wielded political power in Florida

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By Ivan Penn 
| Orlando Sentinel
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... NextEra Energy is known in its home state, Florida, as a political force whose tactics have sometimes put it at odds with regulators, residents, consumer groups and news organizations. Now, with a proposed takeover of Dominion Energy, it wants to become the nation’s largest utility and power company. NextEra’s sharp-elbowed approach in Florida has spilled into public view in lawsuits and public documents.
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How an ambitious energy giant wielded political power in Florida

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By Ivan Penn 
| Chattanooga Times Free Press
NextEra Energy is known in its home state, Florida, as a political force whose tactics have sometimes put it at odds with regulators, residents, consumer groups and news organizations. Now, with a proposed takeover of Dominion Energy, it wants to become the nation’s largest utility and power company. NextEra’s sharp-elbowed approach in Florida has spilled into public view in lawsuits and public documents.
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How an Ambitious Energy Giant Wielded Political Power in Florida

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By Ivan Penn 
| The New York Times
How an Ambitious Energy Giant Wielded Political Power in Florida NextEra, which is seeking to buy Dominion Energy, has often butted heads with consumer groups, residents and journalists in its home state.
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What was your first job as a journalist?

My first paid job was working on my college newspaper, The Diamondback. The first job of my career was reporter/researcher, The Miami Herald.

Have you ever used a typewriter?

Yes, I wrote my first book in middle school on our family typewriter.

How is social media changing news?

People have always loved sharing information, whether pontificating, preaching, gossiping, publishing. Social media allows for all of it.

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