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From death-defying thrills to helping FPL customers save on their electric bills, former circus performer Mike Catarzi offers energy efficiency tips and tricks during the hottest months of the year.

For the last three decades, energy efficiency expert Edward Mock has helped FPL customers save money when their electric bill peaks for the year due to increased energy usage during the summer months.

In the summer months, when energy bills rise as air conditioner units use more electricity, Melissa Booher and her team at FPL's Customer Advocacy team work tirelessly to help lower bills for the most needy.

Nuclear power plants prepare year-round to ensure facilities and the employees who run and maintain them are ready for a hurricane or any emergency.

Discover insights from FPL arborist Erin Schreck on trees, storms and safety. Learn how FPL's strategies protect against hurricanes, outages and more.

FPL graduated seven startup companies from 35 Mules - the first in-house innovation hub. During the 15-month program, the startups have raised more than $9 million in grant funding and venture capital, developed minimum viable products, full-scale pilot programs, and expanded their teams.

State regulators today unanimously approved another Florida Power & Light Company request to decrease rates beginning in July to reflect a continued downward trend in fuel prices.

Less than one year from one of the most destructive hurricane seasons in history, Florida Power & Light Company (FPL) is preparing for the start of another potentially active hurricane season and reminds customers to do the same.

On the heels of a rate decrease that began this month, Florida Power & Light Company today proposed a $256 million rate reduction with the Florida Public Service Commission to take effect in July.

Florida Power & Light Company (FPL) opened two new solar energy centers: FPL Saw Palmetto and FPL Cypress Pond Solar Energy Centers in Northwest Florida.

During his four decades at FPL, Jarvis Swain has worked through every hurricane that has hit the state. This year's Storm Drill reminds him that preparation is key to getting the the lights back on safely and as quickly as possible.

More than 3,500 Florida Power & Light Company (FPL) employees participated in the company’s comprehensive annual storm drill designed to test their response to a simulated hurricane.

With more than a half century on the job, lineworker Charles Mathis continues to serve his Volusia County community, rain or shine.

FPL rates will decrease beginning in May to reflect $379 million in projected fuel savings for the remainder of the year. The Florida Public Service Commission unanimously approved the new rates.

When Pete Gurtowsky isn't creating FPL infographics, he's designing captivating posters for Pensacola's music festivals. For the second year in a row, he has created the winning design for Pensacola JazzFest.

Six months after Hurricane Ian, the Wildlife Center of South Florida has released hundreds of animals with support from the community and FPL.

FPL employees, their families, and friends volunteered across the state during Power to Care Day. Volunteers gave their time to organizations in the communities where they live, work, and play.

FPL is working with the City of Coral Gables to improve reliable service for customers in good and bad weather through the Storm Secure Underground Program.

With three new solar energy centers online, FPL now has 63 sites statewide. The new sites opened in Calhoun, Gadsden, and Walton counties and will power approximately 945,000 homes.

A teacher in Riviera Beach won a $50,000 STEM educational grant to makeover her second-grade class. With FPL’s help, her students are reaching for the stars.

The Florida Public Service Commission unanimously approved new rates starting in April. FPL has also proposed a decrease in May. The approved rates cover hurricane and fuel costs from 2022.

The Renfranz family has owned land in Okeechobee County for years. Now, the land where the FPL permitting manager once played with his sisters is one of dozens FPL solar sites across the state.

An annual report filed with state regulators shows FPL was once again the most reliable utility in the state in 2022. FPL customers have seen a 41% increase in reliability since 2006.

FPL’s proposed plan reduces customer fuel charges beginning in May. The plan would partially offset proposed bill increases that would pay for 2022 hurricane restoration and higher fuel costs.

Breast cancer survivor Cheryl Edlebeck leads the Florida Power & Light team at the annual Susan G. Komen MORE THAN PINK Walk. The FPL project manager was honored as a Warrior in Pink.

Led by FAU Lab Schools and FPL, teachers from across Broward and Palm Beach counties learned how to create new lessons using underwater Remotely Operated Vehicles (ROV) kits donated by FPL.

Eric Schwartz, Senior Manager of Technology & Innovation FPL Air, leads a team dedicated to discovering and implementing new technologies that help FPL work, safer, smarter and improve reliability.

Florida Power & Light Company (FPL) today brings 10 new solar energy centers online throughout Florida. FPL now has 60 solar energy centers installed statewide – capable of...

Florida Power & Light Company’s efforts to create a thriving habitat for the threatened American crocodile at the company’s Turkey Point Clean Energy Center earned the...

Turkey Point biologist Mike Lloret oversees the power plant’s 11,000 acres and its cooling canal system. As crocodile specialist, he’s seen the crocodile population thrive under FPL’s program.

Two hurricanes and natural gas price increases expected to impact customer bills Fuel bills from 2022 already paid by FPL but not yet recovered would be spread over 21 months while lower projected...

The Edison Electric Institute (EEI) has honored Florida Power & Light Company (FPL) with its Emergency Response Award for the company’s power restoration efforts following...

As temperatures dip, Florida Power & Light Company (FPL) encourages Florida residents to prepare for colder weather, which may lead to increased energy usage. Coupled with...

Before arriving to her West Palm Beach home Wednesday, U.S. Army Veteran June Halstead-Cox said she could see a glow emanating from down the street.

JUNO BEACH, Fla. – Florida Power & Light Company (FPL) earned PA Consulting’s ReliabilityOne® National Reliability Award for the seventh time in eight years, highlighting the value of the...

JUNO BEACH, Fla. – Florida Power & Light Company (FPL) has restored power to essentially all of its more than 480,000 customers impacted by Hurricane Nicole less than 24 hours after the historic...

JUNO BEACH, Fla. – Within just 12 hours of the last remnant of Hurricane Nicole leaving the state, Florida Power & Light Company (FPL) restored power to more than 95% of customers affected by...

JUNO BEACH, Fla. – Florida Power & Light Company (FPL) has restored power to more than 75% of customers affected so far by Hurricane Nicole. FPL is now moving additional crews northward to...

JUNO BEACH, Fla. – Florida Power & Light Company (FPL) has been working around the clock, including safely through the night in between feeder bands, to restore power to customers affected by...

JUNO BEACH, Fla. – Florida Power & Light Company (FPL) urges customers to finalize preparations and prepare for power outages as Tropical Storm Nicole nears landfall along Florida’s east coast...

JUNO BEACH, Fla. -- As Tropical Storm Nicole continues its path toward Florida, Florida Power & Light Company is making final preparations to restore service safely and as quickly as possible...

JUNO BEACH, Fla. -- As Subtropical Storm Nicole approaches Florida, Florida Power & Light Company has activated its emergency response plan and is urging customers to prepare for power outages....

Florida Power & Light Company (FPL) marked a milestone in grid resiliency in October when crews, accompanied by helicopters, removed the last wooden transmission poles in Palm Beach County. FPL...

MIAMI/HOMESTEAD, Fla. – Florida Power and Light Company (FPL) executives and Miami-Dade County community leaders donned hardhats and used ceremonial shovels to break ground on the future FPL...

JUNO BEACH, Fla. – Florida Power & Light Company (FPL) has restored power to essentially all of its more than 2.1 million customers who were impacted by Hurricane Ian, eight days after the...

FPL Restoration Update (as of 4 p.m.) Customers affected Customers restored Customers out ~2.1 million More than 2 million ~31,000 Key Information FPL remains on track to essentially complete...

JUNO BEACH, Fla. – Having restored power to more than 2 million customers affected by Hurricane Ian, Florida Power & Light Company remains laser-focused on bringing power to remaining customers...

JUNO BEACH, Fla. – Florida Power & Light Company is continuing its all-out effort in Southwest Florida to restore service to customers who experienced the worst of Hurricane Ian’s high-end...

JUNO BEACH, Fla. – Florida Power & Light Company has restored power to nearly 90% of customers affected by devastating Hurricane Ian, with FPL’s workforce of more than 21,000 -- including...

JUNO BEACH, Fla. – After making significant progress over the weekend responding to devastating Hurricane Ian, Florida Power & Light Company now expects to complete restoration to 95% of...

JUNO BEACH, Fla. – Nearly 1.7 million Florida Power & Light Company (FPL) customers – or nearly 80% of those affected by Hurricane Ian – have now been restored as of 5 p.m. today. As the...

JUNO BEACH, Fla. – Florida Power & Light Company (FPL), following its second full day of restoration, has now restored service to more than 75% of customers affected by the devastating and...

FPL Restoration Update (as of 9 p.m.) Customers affected Customers restored Customers out 2.1 million 1.5 million ~571,000 Total Restoration Workforce Staging and Parking Sites More than 21,000 30...

After the first full day of restoration, Florida Power & Light Company (FPL) has now restored power to two-thirds of customers affected by Hurricane Ian – one of the most powerful and destructive hurricanes to ever make landfall in Florida.

JUNO BEACH, Fla. – Florida Power & Light Company (FPL) has restored power to 1.2 million customers – nearly 60% of those affected by Hurricane Ian – as the company continues its first full...

JUNO BEACH, Fla. – More than 1 million Florida Power & Light Company customers – just over 50% of those affected by Hurricane Ian – have already been restored as FPL today begins the first...

JUNO BEACH, Fla. – Florida Power & Light Company (FPL) continues its massive, around-the-clock restoration effort in the wake of Hurricane Ian, with more than 750,000 customers restored as of 4 p.m.

JUNO BEACH, Fla. – Working throughout the night and into the morning, Florida Power & Light Company (FPL) has restored power to more than half a million customers even as Ian continues its...

JUNO BEACH, Fla. – Florida Power & Light Company (FPL) is preparing to repair and rebuild parts of its electric system as Hurricane Ian takes aim at Florida’s west coast as a high-end Category...

JUNO BEACH, Fla. -- As Hurricane Ian strengthens on its path toward Florida, Florida Power & Light Company is making final preparations to restore service safely and as quickly as possible after...

JUNO BEACH, Fla. – As Tropical Storm Ian strengthens and potentially becomes a major hurricane, Florida Power & Light Company is preparing for a projected landfall in Florida and urging...

Florida Power & Light Company (FPL) today named Jarl Thomas (J.T.) Young vice president and general manager, FPL Northwest Florida region.

The hundreds of millions of dollars in savings are the result of federal production tax credits on the large-scale solar energy centers FPL is building throughout Florida.

Florida Power & Light Company (FPL) today announced it currently has a company record 16 new solar energy centers simultaneously under construction across the Sunshine State...

Florida Power & Light Company (FPL) launched the first-ever commercial uncrewed fixed-wing drone, of this scale, used outside of a Federal Aviation Association (FAA) test site for research and development.

Bill Vikara has reached the big leagues of youth umpiring.

Florida Power & Light Company (FPL) today launched a must-have road trip tool for electric vehicle (EV) drivers.

Florida Power & Light Company (FPL) energy experts will hit the road this summer to assist customers in Escambia, Santa Rosa, Okaloosa, Walton and Bay counties.

As the 2022 Atlantic hurricane season begins today, Florida Power & Light Company (FPL) is monitoring a potential tropical system in the northwest Caribbean Sea and urges customers to prepare.

FPL and Duke Energy Florida have reached an agreement which allows the North Florida Resiliency Connection to remain on track to begin serving customers by the end of July. State-of-the-art,...

JUNO BEACH, Fla. – Florida Power & Light Company (FPL) today recognizes Earth Day 2022, which carries the theme of Invest in Our Planet™. For more than 20 years, FPL has been making smart,...

JUNO BEACH, Fla. — Florida Power & Light Company (FPL) today welcomes 14 entrepreneurs in seven startup companies into the 35 Mules program – the first-ever in-house innovation hub powered by...

JUNO BEACH, Fla. — The 2021 American crocodile nesting season at Florida Power & Light Company’s Turkey Point Clean Energy Center has resulted in a record-setting 565 hatchlings, establishing...

JUNO BEACH, Fla. – Florida Power & Light Company customers received the most reliable service in the company’s history in 2021, continuing a trend in which FPL has improved reliability by 45%...

JUNO BEACH, Fla. — Customers can easily see reliability improvements Florida Power & Light Company has made in their neighborhoods using the updated interactive neighborhood System Improvements...

JUNO BEACH, Fla. – Florida Power & Light Company (FPL) today announced that it has put into service eight new solar energy centers. FPL now has 50 solar energy centers installed statewide –...

JUNO BEACH, Fla. – As temperatures drop this weekend, Florida Power & Light Company (FPL) is monitoring and preparing for the cold weather and encourages customers to be prepared, too. Heating...

JUNO BEACH, Fla. – The Edison Electric Institute (EEI) has honored Florida Power & Light Company (FPL) with its Emergency Response Award for the company’s efforts to help other utilities and...

JUNO BEACH, Fla. (Jan. 14, 2022) — Florida Power & Light Company (FPL) today announced the names of the inaugural five schools in Florida to receive a Classroom Makeover Grant as part of a $2...

JUNO BEACH, Fla. -- In the first project of its kind in Northwest Florida, Florida Power & Light Company has finished replacing overhead power lines with more reliable underground lines to...

JUNO BEACH, Fla. – Florida Power & Light Company received the highest ranking in residential service among large electric utilities in the southern U.S., according to the J.D. Power 2021...

Florida Power & Light Company and Gulf Power Company have integrated and are now doing business as Florida Power & Light Company in Northwest Florida. "This is an exciting day for everyone at FPL...

JUNO BEACH, Fla. (Dec. 15, 2021) — Florida Power & Light Company (FPL) today graduates 11 entrepreneurs in six startup companies from 35 Mules – the first-ever in-house innovation hub powered...

JUNO BEACH, Fla. – Florida Power and Light Company (FPL) tonight unveiled the world’s largest solar-powered battery at a time when the system will be needed most: after dark.

JUNO BEACH, Fla. – Florida Power & Light Company (FPL) officials today announced the company has allocated more than $700,000 over the next three years to support manatee rescue and...

JUNO BEACH, Fla. – Florida Power & Light Company customers escaped the worst of the busy 2021 hurricane season, which officially ends today. While no hurricane made landfall in the 43 Florida...

JUNO BEACH, Fla. – Continuing to provide its more than 5.6 million customers with the nation’s most reliable energy has once again resulted in Florida Power & Light Company (FPL) receiving the...

JUNO BEACH, Fla. – Florida Power & Light Company (FPL) is using the annual Utility Scams Awareness Day to warn customers that scam tactics continue to intensify with high pressure tactics and...

RIVIERA BEACH, Fla. – As the Sunshine State anticipates the return of its favorite marine mammal to the local waterways, Manatee Lagoon – An FPL Eco-Discovery Center® reopens the inside of...

Developed jointly with the state's Office of Public Counsel, the Florida Retail Federation, the Florida Industrial Power Users Group and the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy, the agreement...

MIAMI, Fla. – Florida International University (FIU) and Florida Power & Light Company (FPL) today unveiled an innovative energy microgrid– the latest project to emerge from a decades-long...

JUNO BEACH, Fla. – Florida Power & Light Company’s workforce of more than 1,250 FPL and Gulf Power employees and contractors have returned home after three weeks helping Entergy Louisiana and...

JUNO BEACH, Fla. – Florida Power & Light Company (FPL) is sending transmission equipment to help Entergy Louisiana restore power after Hurricane Ida made landfall earlier this week. In addition...

JUNO BEACH, Fla. – Florida Power & Light Company today is deploying employees and contractors to support power restoration as dangerous Hurricane Ida approaches Louisiana. A team of more than...

JUNO BEACH, Fla. – Florida Power and Light Company announced today that crews installed the first battery modules for the Manatee Energy Storage Center – the world’s largest solar-powered...

Florida Power & Light Company today announced a comprehensive, four-year rate settlement agreement developed jointly with the Florida Office of Public Counsel – the state's consumer advocate –...

JUNO BEACH, Fla. – Florida Power & Light Company (FPL) today announced residential subscriptions for its FPL SolarTogether™ program have sold out, with more than 48,000 customers enrolled and...

JUNO BEACH, Fla. – Florida Power & Light Company is restoring service safely and as quickly as possible to customers affected by Tropical Storm Elsa.