Power plants and the grid in Florida
Florida has 345 power plants with 75.1 GW of capacity, natural gas the largest share at 50.9 GW. The map shows 36 data centers in Florida. Its interconnection queue holds 230 active requests for 22.9 GW.
Capacity by fuel
345 power plants with 75.1 GW of capacity, planned generators left out.
- Natural gas: 50.9 GW from 68 plants (68%)
- Solar: 14 GW from 224 plants (19%)
- Nuclear: 4.9 GW from 2 plants (7%)
- Coal: 2.5 GW from 2 plants (3%)
- Biomass: 991 MW from 28 plants (1%)
- Oil: 834 MW from 6 plants (1%)
- Battery storage: 552 MW from 9 plants (1%)
- Other: 311 MW from 5 plants (under 1%)
- Hydro: 44 MW from 1 plant (under 1%)
Largest plants
- West County Energy Center: Natural gas, 3.8 GW
- Crystal River: Natural gas, 3 GW
- Turkey Point: Nuclear, 2.9 GW
- Manatee: Natural gas, 2.8 GW
- Fort Myers: Natural gas, 2.7 GW
- Sanford: Natural gas, 2.4 GW
- Martin: Natural gas, 2.2 GW
- Hines Energy Complex: Natural gas, 2.1 GW
- H L Culbreath Bayside Power Station: Natural gas, 2 GW
- St Lucie: Nuclear, 2 GW
Largest plants near Miami
- Turkey Point: Nuclear, 2.9 GW, 40 km away
- Dania Beach 7: Natural gas, 1.2 GW, 33 km away
- Port Everglades: Natural gas, 1.2 GW, 36 km away
- Lauderdale: Natural gas, 1.2 GW, 33 km away
- Everglades Solar Energy Center: Solar, 75 MW, 44 km away
Largest plants near Tampa
- Manatee: Natural gas, 2.8 GW, 40 km away
- H L Culbreath Bayside Power Station: Natural gas, 2 GW, 6 km away
- Big Bend: Natural gas, 1.5 GW, 18 km away
- P L Bartow: Natural gas, 1.3 GW, 17 km away
- Anclote: Natural gas, 1 GW, 42 km away
Largest plants near Fort Lauderdale
- Dania Beach 7: Natural gas, 1.2 GW, 9 km away
- Port Everglades: Natural gas, 1.2 GW, 6 km away
- Lauderdale: Natural gas, 1.2 GW, 9 km away
- Wheelabrator South Broward: Biomass, 54 MW, 9 km away
- CSL Gas Recovery: Biomass, 11 MW, 17 km away
Largest plants near Orlando
- Sanford: Natural gas, 2.4 GW, 37 km away
- Stanton Energy Center: Coal, 1.2 GW, 21 km away
- Intercession City: Natural gas, 940 MW, 32 km away
- Cane Island: Natural gas, 679 MW, 30 km away
- Curtis H Stanton Energy Center: Natural gas, 657 MW, 21 km away
Largest plants near West Palm Beach
- West County Energy Center: Natural gas, 3.8 GW, 25 km away
- Riviera: Natural gas, 1.3 GW, 7 km away
- Tom G Smith: Natural gas, 94 MW, 16 km away
- Palm Beach Renewable Energy Facility 2: Biomass, 85 MW, 4 km away
- Holopaw: Solar, 75 MW, 29 km away
Largest plants near Jacksonville
- Northside Generating Station: Coal, 1.3 GW, 15 km away
- Brandy Branch: Natural gas, 743 MW, 26 km away
- Greenland Energy Center: Natural gas, 357 MW, 24 km away
- J D Kennedy: Natural gas, 357 MW, 6 km away
- Fernandina Beach Mill: Biomass, 80 MW, 44 km away
Largest plants near St. Petersburg
- Manatee: Natural gas, 2.8 GW, 38 km away
- H L Culbreath Bayside Power Station: Natural gas, 2 GW, 29 km away
- Big Bend: Natural gas, 1.5 GW, 27 km away
- P L Bartow: Natural gas, 1.3 GW, 13 km away
- Anclote: Natural gas, 1 GW, 47 km away
Largest plants near Sarasota
- Manatee: Natural gas, 2.8 GW, 35 km away
- Manatee Solar Energy Center: Battery storage, 484 MW, 35 km away
- Bayboro: Oil, 97 MW, 48 km away
- Long Branch Solar: Solar, 75 MW, 48 km away
- Southfork Solar: Solar, 75 MW, 43 km away
Largest plants near Miami Beach
- Turkey Point: Nuclear, 2.9 GW, 46 km away
- Dania Beach 7: Natural gas, 1.2 GW, 30 km away
- Port Everglades: Natural gas, 1.2 GW, 31 km away
- Lauderdale: Natural gas, 1.2 GW, 30 km away
- Miami Dade Solar Energy Center: Solar, 75 MW, 41 km away
Largest plants near Sanford
- Sanford: Natural gas, 2.4 GW, 7 km away
- Stanton Energy Center: Coal, 1.2 GW, 36 km away
- Curtis H Stanton Energy Center: Natural gas, 657 MW, 35 km away
- DeBary: Oil, 524 MW, 14 km away
- Orlando Cogen LP: Natural gas, 120 MW, 41 km away
Largest plants near Melbourne
- Cape Canaveral: Natural gas, 1.3 GW, 46 km away
- Oleander Power Project LP: Natural gas, 816 MW, 36 km away
- Indian River: Natural gas, 576 MW, 49 km away
- Osceola Generating Station (FL): Natural gas, 471 MW, 48 km away
- Indian River Plant: Natural gas, 276 MW, 49 km away
Largest plants near Naples
- Goldenrod: Solar, 75 MW, 48 km away
- Waste Management Naples LFGTE Project: Biomass, 4 MW, 14 km away
Largest plants near Coral Springs
- West County Energy Center: Natural gas, 3.8 GW, 49 km away
- Dania Beach 7: Natural gas, 1.2 GW, 24 km away
- Port Everglades: Natural gas, 1.2 GW, 25 km away
- Lauderdale: Natural gas, 1.2 GW, 24 km away
- Tom G Smith: Natural gas, 94 MW, 43 km away
Planned and under construction
28 generators planned, under construction or testing, 2.4 GW in all, not counted above.
- Solar: 1.8 GW
- Natural gas: 538 MW
- Battery storage: 120 MW
- Biomass: 15 MW
Grid operators
- Florida Power & Light (FPL): 165 plants
- Duke Energy Florida Inc (FPC): 74 plants
- Tampa Electric Company (TEC): 47 plants
- Jea (JEA): 19 plants
- Florida Municipal Power Pool (FMPP): 17 plants
- Gainesville Regional Utilities (GVL): 8 plants
- Southern Company (SOCO): 6 plants
- City Of Tallahassee (TAL): 5 plants
- Seminole Electric Cooperative (SEC): 3 plants
- HST: 1 plant
Data centers
36 data center sites on the map.
- Miami-Dade County: 10 sites
- Duval County: 6 sites
- Broward County: 4 sites
- Hillsborough County: 4 sites
- Polk County: 4 sites
- Palm Beach County: 3 sites
- Operators with the most sites: Cologix (4), EdgeConneX (4), Flexential (4), Host.net (2), Bohler Places LLC (1), Brookfield Infrastructure Partners LP (1), CenturyLink (1), Cielo Digital Infrastructure (1), Cogent Communications Inc. (1), Cyxtera (1)
Interconnection queue
230 active requests to connect 22.9 GW of new generation and storage, and 18 suspended requests, from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory's Queued Up data.
- Solar: 15 GW in 203 requests
- Natural gas: 3.5 GW in 13 requests
- Nuclear: 2.6 GW in 2 requests
- Battery storage: 1.8 GW in 10 requests
- Other: 61 MW in 2 requests
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)
Places gazetteer (cities, airports, regions): Natural Earth populated places; OurAirports; Natural Earth admin-1; Wattlas curated places. License: Public domain
Data centers: Epoch AI (CC BY); OpenStreetMap via the public Overpass API (ODbL, © OpenStreetMap contributors); Ringmast4r Global-Data-Center-Map (custom permissive license, attribution required); 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; 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; generation within 20 km from the previous publish's plants; 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: CC BY; ODbL; custom permissive; 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
Interconnection queue requests: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and GridTracker, "Queued Up". License: CC BY 4.0
States and provinces (simplified polygons): Natural Earth 10m admin-1. License: Public domain