Electric utilities

Florida Power & Light Company Completes Electric Service Restoration for Most Affected Customers

Strategic Insights

Aug 28, 2005 — 1 min read

Florida Power & Light Company has achieved a significant milestone in restoring electric service to customers impacted by Hurricane Katrina. As of now, the company has successfully restored power to 1,071,900 of the 1.45 million customers affected by the hurricane. Despite the challenging conditions, FPL has pledged to continue working around the clock to meet its target of getting power back on for 90 percent of affected customers by Tuesday night. The company is on track to meet its goal, with some areas expected to receive 100 percent power restoration by Tuesday night.

Key Takeaways:

FPL has restored power to 1,071,900 of the 1.45 million customers impacted by Hurricane Katrina.
The company has pledged to continue working around the clock to meet its target of getting power back on for 90 percent of affected customers by Tuesday night.
FPL expects to restore 100 percent power in northern Broward County and southern Miami-Dade County by Tuesday night.
All customers north of Commercial Boulevard in Broward County and all customers south of Eureka Drive (SW 184th Street) in Miami-Dade County will have power restored by Tuesday night.
100 percent of customers on Key Biscayne in Miami-Dade will have power restored by Tuesday night.
FPL plans to restore service to the vast majority of schools in Miami-Dade and Broward by tonight, and the balance by Monday night.
The company also plans to have power restored to the vast majority of traffic signals in the two counties by tonight.

Statistics:

1,071,900: Number of customers with power restored as of now.
1.45 million: Total number of customers impacted by Hurricane Katrina.
90%: Target percentage of customers expected to have power back on by Tuesday night.
481,100: Number of customers still in need of power restoration.
4.3 million: Number of customer accounts served by Florida Power & Light Company in Florida.
$10 billion: Annual revenues of FPL Group, Inc.

Sources:

FPL Company release
FPL Group, Inc. (NYSE: FPL)
www.FPL.com
www.FPLGroup.com
www.FPLEnergy.com

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