Can anyone explain why utilities have been so slow to embrace cooperative cogeneration facilities? From my experience living near Melbourne, FLA, it seems there is a standard development unit -  take a few square miles of sacred glades, drain it, build one golf course, one grade school, one WalMart, a library, so many thousand homes, a community building, etc.  If the developers are going to be that blatant about it, the least they could do is install on-site cogeneration, solar heating and cooling, etc.  

As for large utility plants, why site something huge on a site which may well be under water in 50 years,  with increasingly violent hurricane activity, etc.?

Oops, I forgot:  Jeb Bush and Katherine Harris, etc.  Can't expect clean electricity and rational public policy in the state which is poster child for dirty elections.