Florida Electric Utilities

&
FPL

Florida Electric Utilities

5 investor-owned electric companies

15 Non Investor Electric utilities
35 municipally owned electric utilities
18 rural electric cooperatives
bulk power supply, operations, and
planning)
Summer: 57,454 Megawatts (MW)
Winter: 61,601 MW *

Energy Resources
Capacity Vs Primary Fuel

5 Investor-owned Electric Companies Geographies

*Progress Energy Florida, Inc. changed its name to Duke Energy

5 Investor-owned Electric Companies - Customers

Municipal Electric Utilities

35 Municipalities with around 1.3 million Customers (2013)

FMEA Florida Municipal Electric Association Lobbying
Group
FMPA Florida Municipal Power Agency (30 members) with
investment in the Power Generation
Municipals also buy power directly from one another or
from privately held, investor-owned utilities in Florida and
Georgia i.e. FPL, Duke Energy and Gulf Power
FPL Impact over Municipalities due to fairly low Rates

Non Investor Utilities

Utility
Florida Keys Electric
Cooperative

Hdqtrs.
Tavernier

Top Executive Service Area

Florida
Customers

Scott Newberry

Monroe County

31,200

Fort Pierce Utilities Authority Fort Pierce

William G. Thiess

Fort Pierce

27,700

Gainesville Regional Utilities Gainesville

Robert Hunzinger

Gainesville

93,000

Homestead Energy Services

Homestead

Barbara Quinones

Homestead

22,400

JEA

Jacksonville

Paul McElroy

Northeast Florida

420,000

Keys Energy Services

Key West

Lynne E. Tejeda

Lower Keys

28,000

Kissimmee Utility Authority

Kissimmee

James C. Welsh

Osceola County

64,000

Lakeland Electric

Lakeland

Joel Ivy

Lakeland

122,000

Lake Worth Utilities

Lake Worth

Clayton Lindstrom Lake Worth

24,800

New Smyrna Beach Utilities

New Smyrna Beach

William R. Mitchum New Smyrna Beach

25,500

Ocala Utility Services

Ocala

David Anderson

47,900

Orlando Utilities Commission Orlando

Reedy Creek Improvement
District
City of Tallahassee Electric
Utility
City of Vero Beach Electric
Utility

Ocala

Kenneth P. Ksionek Orlando

250,000

Lake Buena Vista

Bill Warren

Walt Disney World

1,300

Tallahassee

Rob McGarrah

Big Bend

115,200

Vero Beach

Tom Richards

Vero Beach

33,600

FPL Generating Power Resources

Name

Location

State

Capacity
(MW)

Owner

Unit Type

(Dec, 2013)

Fuel wise Capacity

(MW)

Firm/Non-Firm
Power
Generation

West County Energy Center

western Palm Beach Florida

3657

FPL

Combined Cycle

3657

Firm

Turkey Point

Florida City

Florida

3176

FPL

Nuclear
Combined Cycle (Gas/Oil)
Oil/Gas Steam

1632
1148
396

Firm
Firm
Firm

St. Lucie Nuclear Power Plant Hutchinson Island

Florida

1821

FPL

Nuclear

1821

Firm

Sanford
Riviera
Putnam

Lake Monroe
Riviera Beach
Palatka

Florida
Florida
Florida

1980
0
498

FPL
FPL
FPL

Martin

Indiantown

Florida

3731

FPL

Manatee

Parrish

Florida

2729

FPL

Lauderdale

Dania

Florida

1724

FPL

1980
0
498
2079
1652
1111
1618
884
840
1432

Firm
Firm
Firm
Firm
Firm
Firm
Firm
Firm
Non-Firm
Firm

Fort Myers

Fort Myers

Florida

2396

FPL

316

Firm

DeSoto
Cape Canaveral

Arcadia
Cocoa

Florida
Florida

25
1210

FPL
FPL

Combined Cycle (Gas)

2-Unit Oil/Gas
Combined Cycle (Gas/Oil)
Combined Cycle (Gas)
Oil/Gas Steam
Combined Cycle (Gas)
Oil/Gas Steam
Combined Cycle (Gas/Oil)
Gas Turbines (Oil)
Combined Cycle (Gas)
Cumbustion Turbine
(Gas/Oil)
Gas Turbines (Oil)
PV Solar
Combined Cycle (Gas/Oil)

648
25
1210

Non-Firm
Non-Firm
Firm

Scherer

Monroe County,
Georgia 643
GA

FPL

Coal Steam

643

Firm

Port Everglades

Florida

420

FPL

Gas Turbines (Oil)

420

Non-Firm

Jacksonville

Florida

254

FPL, JEA

Coal Steam

254

Firm

NA

Florida

10

FPL

PV Solar

10

Non-Firm

242
74

Port Everglade
St Johns River Power Park
(SJRPP)
Space Coast

Total System Generation

(firm+Non-Firm)

FPL Firm Purchased Power

(Dec, 2013)

Firm Capacity Purchases (MW)

Location
Fuel
Power Purchases : Cogeneration/Small Power Production Facitlities
Cedar Bay Generating Co, Duval
Duval
Coal
Indiantown Cogen LP , Martin
Martin
Coal
Solid
Broward South, Broward
Broward
Waste
Solid
Broward North, Broward
Broward
Waste

Purchases from Utilities

UPS (Unit Power Sales) Contract from Southern
Locations in
Coal
Company , Georgia
Georgia
Jacksonville,
St Johns River Power Park (SJRPP)
Coal
FL

Total Net Firm Generation Capacity(MW)

Non-Firm Energy Purchases from:

Okeelanta
Broward North and South
Waste Management Collier
County Landfill
Tropicana
First Solar

Georgia Pacific
Rothenbach Park
INEOS Bio
Miami Dade Resource
Recovery

Power
(MW)
250
330
4
11

928
381

1904

Capacity and Energy by Primary Fuel Type

70
60
50
40
30
20
10
0

67.4

5.4

22.6
0.2

0.1

4.3

(Dec, 2013)

FPL Customers

(Dec, 2013)

Number of Customers (Dec, 2013)

9541; 0%
516500; 11%

4097172; 89%

Rural and Residential

Commercial
Industrial

FPL Customers
FPL does sell Power to some municipalities under contract
and at the same time it does buy power from other
municipalities on short term contracts as per the demand:

five customers to FPL:
The Florida Keys Electric Cooperative;
City of Key West; - contract expired in 2013
Metro-Dade County; - contract expired in 2013
Lee County Electric Cooperative; and
Wauchula.
Seminole Electric Cooperative

References
10 Year Plan submitted Annually to FPSC by FPL
(2013):
http://www.fpl.com/about/ten_year/pdf/2014TYP_text.pdf

Florida Public Service Commission (FPSC) (2012)

http://www.floridapsc.com/utilities/electricgas/statistics/statistics-2013.pdf

Florida Trends

http://www.floridatrend.com/article/15895/energy-companies-in-florida