The Charlotte-based utility firm says it is abandoning the project because the Florida Legislature didn't approve a bill this year allowing electric merchant providers to build plants that use natural gas.
An activist group, however, the Citizens Against Merchant Power, is taking credit for opposing the venture from the beginning.
Lake County's planning department recommended last year that building permits for the project should not be approved, largely because the venture would have to use 116,000 gallons of water daily; its exhaust stacks would be 93 feet high and the project would be a noisy operation.
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