On June 14, 2022, NextEra Energy announced its Real Zero plan, which would eliminate carbon emissions from its operations no later than 2045 while leveraging low-cost renewables to increase energy affordability for its customers.[1] NextEra said the plan is the most ambitious carbon-emissions reduction goal by an energy producer and is the sector’s only goal not to require carbon offsets for success. The goal would transform the company’s generation fleet by eliminating all scope 1 and scope 2 carbon emissions across its operations while enhancing reliability, resiliency, affordability, and cost certainty for its customers.

To achieve its plan, NextEra has created a Zero Carbon blueprint, a carbon-emissions reduction plan. NextEra intends to help decarbonize the U.S. economy, a more than $4 trillion market opportunity, by increasing low-cost renewable energy deployment. The plan would generate only carbon-emissions-free energy from a mix of wind, solar, battery storage, nuclear, green hydrogen, and other renewable sources. The company has set interim milestones to reach carbon emissions reduction of 70% by 2025, 82% by 2030, 87% by 2035, and 94% by 2040, relative to 2005. A large portion of the company’s plan to decarbonize will happen within its subsidiary Florida Power & Light Company (FPL). As part of Real Zero, FPL's goal is to reach 36% decarbonized by 2025, 52% by 2030, 62% by 2035, 83% by 2040, and 100% by no later than 2045.

[1] https://www.investor.nexteraenergy.com/news-and-events/news-releases/2022/06-14-2022-130240303