NextEra Energy recently made takeovertures to Duke Energy and escaped yet another bullet, because the management at Duke rebuffed the deal. As we understand it the approach was informal, and typically Duke would have said the offer, if one was ever made, was not enough. NextEra already has a position with Florida Power and Light and Gulf Power where it is in the process of trying to merge the two, but also has hit regulatory inertia to its plan to push them aggressively towards renewables. With Duke NextEra would have hit resistance both inside and outside the company with the rate of change and acceptance of renewables. Duke surged up 7% in the few days since the approach was made,…