The Megawatt Moat: NextEra’s $110 Billion Balancing Act
@orsiri:
Wall Street increasingly has two versions of NextEra Energy. The bull sees an AI-power compounder: America needs enormous quantities of electricity, grid connections take years, and NextEra owns one of the deepest development pipelines in the industry. The bear sees something less glamorous: a heavily indebted utility spending almost $30 billion a year on capital projects while issuing debt and shares to keep the machine moving. I think both arguments deserve attention. The investment question is which version ultimately earns the higher valuation. At $76.83, $NextEra(NEE)$ is neither a nuclear momentum trade nor a sleepy income utility. It is increasingly a wager on whether the scarce asset in American power is not generation technology itself, bu