Florida Power & Light (FPL)
Florida Power & Light (FPL) is a balancing authority on the North American grid. On the map it has 165 power plants with 40.9 GW of capacity, natural gas the largest share at 25.5 GW. Its peak load is 23,079 MW.
At a glance
- Peak load: 23,079 MW
Capacity by fuel
165 power plants with 40.9 GW of capacity, planned generators left out.
- Natural gas: 25.5 GW from 19 plants (62%)
- Solar: 9.5 GW from 126 plants (23%)
- Nuclear: 4.9 GW from 2 plants (12%)
- Battery storage: 494 MW from 2 plants (1%)
- Biomass: 462 MW from 14 plants (1%)
- Oil: 44 MW from 1 plant (under 1%)
- Hydro: 44 MW from 1 plant (under 1%)
Largest plants
- West County Energy Center: Natural gas, 3.8 GW, Florida
- Turkey Point: Nuclear, 2.9 GW, Florida
- Manatee: Natural gas, 2.8 GW, Florida
- Fort Myers: Natural gas, 2.7 GW, Florida
- Sanford: Natural gas, 2.4 GW, Florida
- Martin: Natural gas, 2.2 GW, Florida
- St Lucie: Nuclear, 2 GW, Florida
- Gulf Clean Energy Center: Natural gas, 1.9 GW, Florida
- Okeechobee Clean Energy Center: Natural gas, 1.7 GW, Florida
- Cape Canaveral: Natural gas, 1.3 GW, Florida
Planned and under construction
14 generators planned, under construction or testing, 1 GW in all, not counted above.
- Solar: 1 GW
States and provinces
- Florida: 165 plants
Sources
Power plants: EIA-860M (US); NRCan NACEI (Canada, Mexico); WRI GPPD (Mexico); OpenStreetMap via Geofabrik (Canada, Mexico gap fill); USGS USWTDB/USPVDB; EPA eGRID; Natural Earth admin-1; HIFLD control areas; location attributes from WorldPop (R2025A), Global Solar Atlas PVOUT, Global Wind Atlas 4, USFS Wildfire Hazard Potential, the USGS National Seismic Hazard Model and the previous publish's lines and substations; water distances from OpenStreetMap via Geofabrik; gas distances and county queue from the previous publish's EIA gas pipelines and LBNL Queued Up requests; nearest city from Natural Earth populated places; cooling degree days from NOAA NCEI nClimDiv county normals; elevation and slope from the Copernicus DEM GLO-30 (ESA, via AWS Open Data); water stress from WRI Aqueduct 4.0; ozone nonattainment from the EPA Green Book; drought from the U.S. Drought Monitor; tribal land from US Census TIGER/Line. License: ODbL (derivative database; EIA content is public domain, NRCan OGL-Canada, WRI GPPD CC BY 4.0; location attributes from WorldPop, Global Solar Atlas, Global Wind Atlas, LBNL Queued Up and WRI Aqueduct CC BY 4.0, USFS, USGS, EIA, NOAA, EPA, US Census and Natural Earth public domain, Copernicus DEM GLO-30 © DLR e.V. and Airbus Defence and Space GmbH, the U.S. Drought Monitor courtesy of NDMC)
Balancing authorities: HIFLD Control Areas (position, peak load); EIA-930 reference tables (which BAs are active); EIA-861 (a feature's BA); Wattlas outlines for Canadian and Mexican BAs. License: Public domain