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Florida Power and Light

As mentioned below, FPL is the power provider that CWLP selected for its wind power. This post is just collecting together a few tidbits about FPL that came up last night, and that I've been able to find online. First of all, here's their generation mix: about half natural gas, slightly under one-third wind, eleven percent nuclear, and a mix of others for the rest. (No coal, unless it's in the 2% for "Solar and other.") According to the FPL rep last night, while wind accounts for slightly less than a third of their total capacity, it only accounts for 21% of their total electricity generation. Further, their 4000 MW of wind accounts for 34% of US marketshare of wind power; they are the largest wind power provider in the country (according to this 2003 slideshow, that's actually down from 43% that year). Here is a fact sheet about their wind power facilities.

Something that was mentioned in passing is that FPL only sells to municipalities. I can't find anything to back that up, and it seems somewhat incredible (particularly since it is not, itself, a municipal utility), so I might have misheard.

FPL, as the name suggests, is based in Florida. It's origins are in Florida Power and Light, a regulated utility. At some point, they got into the energy marketing game, and split off FPL Energy; they are now both owned under the umbrella of FPL Group. FPL Energy, with whom we're on course to deal with, has energy resources literally across the country. (At one point, I had a map showing all of their energy resources, but I can't find it now.) Sadly, they centralize operations of all of their national energy resources in Juno, FL. Their Juno facility runs 24 hours a day to monitor their facilities.

Our projects, as previously mentioned, are in Iowa. The first one is in Hancock County; the second is planned in Osceola, and it doesn't look like they've put a profile of it yet.

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