In addition to its existing powers, any electric utility, or any organization, association, or separate legal entity whose membership consists only of electric utilities, by participating in an agreement to implement a project, is authorized and empowered to join with any one or more of the following:
for the purpose or purposes of jointly financing, acquiring, constructing, managing, operating, or owning any project or projects. In the implementation of this act, any group of electric utilities may create any organization, association, or separate legal entity whose membership consists only of electric utilities for the accomplishment of the purposes of this act. However, no such organization, association, or separate legal entity may own, operate, or exercise the power of eminent domain with respect to any facilities for the retail distribution of electrical energy.
Fla. Stat. § 361.12