This post is part of a series examining where 2024 candidates running for public offices in the Southeast stand on key energy and climate issues. Note: The Southern Alliance for Clean Energy does not support or oppose candidates or political parties. Links to reports, candidate websites, and outside sources are provided as citizen education tools.
In this blog post, we examine the policies and positions of Anna Paulina Luna, Republican Party candidate running for reelection to the United States House of Representatives from Florida’s 13th congressional district. Also in this series, we profile Republican candidate Whitney Fox. Election Day is November 5, 2024.
Anna Paulina Luna currently serves the United States House of Representatives from Florida’s 13th congressional district as a member of the Republican Party. She was elected to office in 2022 and is a member of the House Freedom Caucus. Previously, she was the director of Hispanic engagement for Turning Point USA. Luna grew up in Orange County, CA, and earned a degree from the University of West Florida.
Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency
Anna Paulina Luna, who sits on the House Natural Resources Committee, is opposed to offshore wind turbines having stated “these ugly and ineffective turbines[…] pose untold dangers to our state’s coastal communities […] My Florida Republican colleagues and I are committed to ensuring that no turbines are placed off of Florida’s coasts,” and introduced a bill amendment that would require the US Government Accountability Office to publish a report examining the adverse effects of wind energy.
Climate Change
Rep. Luna voted for H.R.1 a bill that would expand oil and gas drilling on public lands and cut environmental regulations, as well as repeal both the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund, which is focused on financing for clean energy and energy efficiency for underserved communities, and the Methane Emissions Reduction Program, the policy to incentivize oil and gas infrastructure owners to make improvements to minimize methane leaks and collect fees from methane polluters. Luna joined 10 other Floridian Republicans and voted in favor of shutting the government down days before Hurricane Helene devastated large portions of the area she represents in Tampa Bay, Florida, a move that FEMA’s administrator said could leave the agency underfunded to respond to damage from any subsequent storms.
Electric Transportation
Luna praised efforts to overturn the Advanced Clean Fleets (ACF) rule, and has argued that the “US doesn’t actually have a grid or infrastructure that can actually enable or support a majority of Americans driving EVs.”
Energy Equity and Energy Burden
As a Congresswoman, Anna Paulina Luna has said about climate justice: “Those who are advocating for climate justice … are empowering a country [China] that is going to destroy us all.”
High-Risk Energy: Coal, Nuclear, Oil, Gas
Luna promotes increased fossil fuel production as a path to energy independence. According to her website, Luna “will continue to lead the charge in Congress for American energy independence by restoring oil and gas leases, reinstating the Keystone XL pipeline, and fighting the Left’s radical Green New Deal regulations.”
This past May, Luna disclosed that she had invested between $200,000 and $450,000 in America First Natural Resources LLC, a top political donor’s energy company that aims to produce oil and gas in the United States.
Luna called herself a proud cosponsor of the National Nuclear Commitment Act, which states that “Congress is committed to embracing and accepting nuclear power as a clean baseload energy source that is easily compatible with other intermittent energy sources and necessary to achieve a reliable, secure, and green electric grid.”
During a Natural Resources Committee hearing Luna said “I know and firmly believe that coal is the energy of the future […] And as radical environmentalists [around the world] try to force their countries into an electrified transition, the world is not ready for it in terms of minerals mined and processed.”
Voter Information
Election Day is November 5. Here are important dates and deadlines to consider, from the Florida Division of Elections:
- Deadline for county elections offices to send vote-by-mail ballots to UOCAVA voters: September 21, 2024
- Deadline for county elections offices to send vote-by-mail ballots to domestic voters: September 26, 2024 – October 3, 2024
- Deadline to register to vote: October 7, 2024 (no deadline to change party affiliation)
- Deadline to request that ballot be mailed: October 24, 2024
- Early voting period (mandatory period): October 26 – November 2, 2024. [In addition, county supervisors of elections have the option to offer more early voting on the 5 days before the mandatory start, and/or 1 day after the mandatory end (i.e. potentially opening Oct. 21-Nov. 3 for early voting)]
- Election Day: November 5, 2024
*Visit Vote-by-Mail and Military and Overseas Citizens Voting for information about deadlines to send a vote-by-mail ballot, to request a vote-by-mail ballot and to return vote by a mail ballot.
Find additional important election information here.
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CIP Buys Ørsted EU Onshore Wind
Allen covers CIP’s €1.44 billion buyout of Ørsted’s European onshore wind, the new Perigus Energy name, and Vestas paying €506 million for its stake in the firm.
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In Denmark, there is an old expression. “What goes around comes around.” The founders of Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners — known in the industry simply as CIP — know exactly what that means.
Back in 2012, four executives were fired from DONG Energy, the Danish energy giant that would later rebrand itself as Ørsted. Their offense? Their paychecks were considered too large. So large that DONG Energy’s own CEO was forced out as well. Four men shown the door were. A year later, a woman joined them from that same company. The Danish press had a name for these five. They called them “the golden birds.”
With six billion Danish krone from the pension fund PensionDanmark, they launched what is now one of the world’s largest clean energy fund managers.
In 2020, turbine maker Vestas purchased a 25 percent stake in CIP. The deal included a performance-based earn-out arrangement. This week, the books revealed the size of that windfall.
The five partners have now collected a combined 1.8 billion Danish krone — roughly 240 million euros. Vestas expects to make one final payment of 71 million euros this year. Including interest, Vestas will have paid 506 million euros for its stake in CIP. Not a bad return for a group of people who were shown the door.
And. This week, CIP completed its acquisition of Ørsted’s European onshore wind business for 1.44 billion euros. They renamed it Perigus Energy. The new company holds 826 megawatts of wind and solar capacity, operating in Ireland, Germany, the United Kingdom, and Spain.
Let that circle close. The executives fired from DONG Energy — the company that became Ørsted — just bought Ørsted’s business.
Meanwhile, CIP’s annual report for 2025 tells the story of a company in transition. Profit for the year came in at 561 million Danish krone, down from 683 million the year before. The employee count fell by nearly a fifth, to 441 people. And yet, their CI Five fund closed this year at 12.3 billion euros — the largest greenfield renewable infrastructure fund ever raised. Looking ahead, CIP expects profit of 600 to 800 million Danish krone in 2026 as new fund closings take shape.
So the picture this week is this. The men and women once considered overpaid, at a company that no longer carries the same name, have built the world’s largest greenfield renewable energy fund. And they now own a piece of the legacy that fired them.
The golden birds are still flying.
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They call this woman an “influencer.” What type of idiot does she influence?
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