alt Hacker NewsNEE profit margin is currently 40.37% https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/NEE/nextera-energy...
From that, NEE pays 43.72% in dividends.
So we can say that 17.64% of the amount paid for energy to this company is wasted in dividends ALONE.
Just to put some numbers on the waste on the private side.
Accounting earnings are not simply the markup on electricity, or revenue collected from electric customers minus the cost of supplying them. NEE's financials include many other things such as investment earnings, gains from the sale of assets, energy futures and tax credits