Dive Summary:

• NextEra Energy Resources, one of the biggest nuclear energy generators and wind-installers, has jumped onto the solar bandwagon in a big way.
• The leading installer of wind energy capacity just acquired Smart Energy Capital, a commercial solar builder with 70 megawatts of PV installed projects across various states.
• “This acquisition looks to be NextEra's deeper entry into solar, driven in some measure by Andrew Beebe, who was recently named VP of Distributed Generation at NextEra Energy Resources,” Greentech Media reports.

From the article:
“NextEra is a profitable independent power producer (IPP) with an immense 42-gigawatt portfolio covering twenty states and provinces, focused mostly on wind, natural gas, and nuclear. The firm was the number-one wind installer in the U.S. last year. Its solar projects include the SEGS concentrating solar power plant, New Jersey's Paradise project, and the 5-megawatt Hatch, NM CPV project.”