Climate Policy Engagement Analysis
Climate Policy Engagement Overview: NextEra Energy (NextEra) exhibits both supportive and oppositional engagement with science-aligned climate policy, with an advocacy presence in Canada and the US. Although the company supported federal clean energy tax credits in the US, it promotes a long-term role for fossil gas and demonstrates a variety of positions on climate-related policies in multiple states, including Florida, Illinois, and Ohio. NextEra is a member of several industry groups with highly negative climate policy engagement, including the US Chamber of Commerce and the state chambers of commerce in California, Florida, and Tennessee.
Top-Line Messaging on Climate Policy: NextEra appears to communicate limited top-line support for climate policy. In a December 2023 interview with Axios at COP28, the company stated that its role was to “help influence government policy” but did not specify desired outcomes or its position on IPCC-recommended emissions reductions. NextEra does not appear to have taken a clear position on the Paris Agreement.
Engagement With Climate-Related Policy: NextEra engages on climate-related policies with a mix of positive and negative positions. In the US, the company has supported federal funding toward clean energy: for example, in a March 2025 interview with Bloomberg, CEO John Ketchum defended the Inflation Reduction Act’s renewable energy tax credits, which were subsequently repealed or weakened by President Trump’s signing of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. At the state level, the company has taken a variety of positions on solar legislation. In Florida, subsidiary Florida Power & Light (FPL) appeared to directly engage with policymakers to weaken rooftop solar incentives: as reported by a December 2021 Tampa Bay Times article, FPL engaged with state Senators to draft and introduce legislation that would disincentivize net metering, with the subsidiary registering in support of the House version of the bill during February 2022 committee hearings. After Governor DeSantis vetoed the bill in April 2022, E&E News reported a statement from FPL in which the subsidiary emphasized its commitment to “finding a more equitable net metering solution for all Floridians.” In a July 2022 article, the Guardian described how FPL’s CEO funded political campaigns from 2017-2019 to remove pro-rooftop solar policymakers from office. In Ohio, however, NextEra provided September 2023 testimony in support of House Bill 197, which proposed to promote community solar in the state.
Positioning on Energy Transition: NextEra has taken increasingly negative positions on the energy mix and advocated for flexible guidelines around hydrogen production. CEO Ketchum promoted the role of fossil gas at global energy conferences, emphasizing during CERAWeek 2025, CERAWeek 2024, and CERAWeek 2023 that fossil gas has a significant role to play in the energy transition. Following the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), NextEra consistently advocated for the clean hydrogen production tax credit to allow annual matching – as opposed to hourly matching – so that hydrogen produced from clean energy for only a portion of the year would still qualify for the credit. In response to the draft guidance, the company submitted February 2024 comments and March 2024 testimony criticizing the proposed hourly matching requirement and advocating for the tax credit to support hydrogen blending with fossil gas. Previously, NextEra signed an April 2023 joint letter and submitted December 2022 comments that expressed concerns with hourly matching. The company engaged similarly in Illinois, signing a May 2023 joint letter to state policymakers advocating against proposed legislation that would require hourly matching in hydrogen production. Additionally, NextEra submitted August 2023 comments with the Energy Strategy Coalition to push back on the ambition of the Biden administration’s power plant carbon standards, advocating that the agency accommodate gas power plants’ “anticipated role in supporting the integration of increasing volume of renewable generation and storage resources.” NextEra appeared absent on the Trump administration’s proposed repeal of these carbon standards, which closed for comment in early August 2025.
Industry Association Governance: NextEra published a second industry associations review in March 2024 that lists its industry association memberships, however without describing each group’s specific climate policy engagement activities. NextEra holds board and committee positions on the California Chamber of Commerce and Edison Electric Institute, which oppose California climate policy and promote the role of fossil gas, respectively. NextEra is also a member of the US Chamber of Commerce and Tennessee Chamber of Commerce & Industry, both of which strategically oppose US climate policy, and subsidiary FPL is a member of several obstructive groups, including the Florida Chamber of Commerce and Consumer Energy Alliance, a 501(c)(4) non-profit.
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InfluenceMap collects and assesses evidence of corporate climate policy engagement on a weekly basis, depending on the availability of information from each specific data source (for more information see our methodology). While this analysis flows through to the company’s scores each week, the summary above is updated periodically. This summary was last updated in Q3 2025.