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Navy Federal Credit Union will begin phasing back its in-office personnel in September, offering a flexible hybrid model that s likely to set the tone for how other companies and office buildings in the region handle their own return-to-work plans.
The credit union, which is Escambia County s largest employer with about 8,400 employees, is seeking volunteers among its staff to start phasing into physical office hours this summer before everyone returns in September.
Even then, it ll be a fluid situation, according to Kara Cardona, Navy Federal s senior vice president of greater Pensacola. The September target date is largely for working parents who likely will be able to return to the office once their children are in school.
Pensacola has become the first city in Northwest Florida to commit to having almost a third of its operations powered by renewable energy by the end of the decade, but it s not clear yet how the city will accomplish the goal.
Pensacola s goal of 30% of its energy coming from renewable sources may look modest compared to 11 other cities in the state that have committed to 100% by the 2040s or 2050s.
But Pensacola Mayor Grover Robinson said the city s 30% goal is based on the advice of the city s sustainability coordinator as Pensacola would likely never reach 100% renewable energy. It s tough to do, Robinson said during his press conference Monday. You can do everything you want to do, you can be doing a good job, and you may not get there. So we ve been very focused on what is achievable.
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PENSACOLA, FL The monumental power failure in Texas caused by unseasonable cold showed how extreme weather can push an electric grid to the brink.
The average U.S. power customer loses electricity for 1.5 to 2 hours annually even before extreme weather events are taken into account, according to data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration. As the Texas experience showed, hurricanes, snowstorms, heat waves and other extreme weather events can make such outages dramatically worse.
Customers in Florida state experienced 1.47 hours without power in 2019 3.23 fewer hours than the national average of 4.7 hours in 2019, which is the most recent information available, according to the EIA.
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