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Enhancing Public Power Resilience in Florida

Explore Florida's public power utilities profile, mutual aid networks, and storm readiness initiatives. Learn how utilities work together for storm hardening and wind monitoring projects.

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Enhancing Public Power Resilience in Florida

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  1. Barry Moline, Executive Director Florida Municipal Electric Association (850) 224-3314, ext. 1 bmoline@publicpower.com www.publicpower.com May 2007 Public Power in FloridaMutual Aid and Storm Readiness

  2. Profile • 34 municipal electric utilities • 1.3 million customer meters • 14% of Florida’s population • Large Utilities • JEA (Jacksonville): 385,000 customers • OUC (Orlando): 192,000 customers • Tallahassee: 107,000 customers • Small Utilities • Bushnell: 1,130 customers • Combined, 3rd largest utility behind FPL and Progress Energy

  3. Florida’s Public Power Utilities =Winter Park Reedy Creek =

  4. Power Supply • How do the small utilities generate power? • They don’t… • Only 13 of 34 generate electricity • Others purchase power from: • Florida Municipal Power Agency • 15 purchase all, 8 purchase some • Progress Energy • TECO Energy • Florida Power & Light • Gulf Power • Glades Co-op

  5. Florida mutual aid Southeastern mutual aid National mutual aid Mutual Aid – Many Options

  6. Mutual Aid Agreements and Procedures

  7. NH VT WA ME MT ND MN MA OR NY RI WI SD ID MI CT PA WY IA NJ OH NE IL IN DE NV WV VA UT CO MD MO KY KS CA NC TN SC OK AR AZ NM MS GA AL LA TX FL Mutual Aid Has Come from Near & Far…

  8. Kissimmee Utility Authority (KUA) Fort Pierce Utility Authority (FPUA) Public power utilities may be small, but together we have a strong state and national network Today

  9. Utilities working together on storm hardening research Undergrounding Vegetation Management Wind Data Wind monitoring project: PSC staff specifically asked the utilities to consider Benefits Accurate information about wind conditions during adverse weather Correlate actual wind conditions with actual damage 4 party agreement Utilities, University of Florida's Engineering Department, WeatherFlow, Inc., and the Public Utility Research Center Establish a network of wind monitoring systems throughout the state to monitor the effects of hurricanes on utility infrastructure. Monitoring stations 12 will be operating by June 1st Expect to have as many as 40 stations across the state by October 1st Wind Monitoring

  10. Thank You!

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