Located on Lake Michigan in the heart of America's dairyland, the Point Beach Nuclear Plant produces about one-sixth of all electric power in Wisconsin.
Located in eastern Iowa, the Duane Arnold Energy Center has been powering Iowa homes and businesses since 1975.
Nature provides a tranquil setting for NextEra Energy Resources' Seabrook Nuclear Power Plant, which safely provides emissions-free electric power to New England homes and businesses, as it has since 1990.
The two units at FPL's Turkey Point Nuclear Plant safely and efficiently produce emissions-free electricity for hundreds of thousands of Floridians.
FPL's St. Lucie Power Plant has two nuclear units that generate emissions-free electricity 24/7.
PROVIDING RELIABLE AND EMISSIONS-FREE ENERGY
Our priority in everything we do is to protect the health and safety of the communities in which our facilities are located. This includes protecting the environment around our nuclear power plants, which generate emissions-free electricity 24/7.
We have nuclear plants in Florida, Iowa, New Hampshire and Wisconsin. These eight operating units avoid more than 25 million tons of carbon dioxide emissions each year, which is equivalent to removing more than 5 million cars from the road annually.
We have a strong nuclear safety program that includes:
- Robust plant design and construction;
- Highly experienced and well-trained personnel;
- Stringent plant security;
- Comprehensive safety planning; and
- A commitment to meet or exceed all federal, state and local regulations.
In addition, our nuclear fleet significantly benefits the economies of the communities and states in which they operate. Each site employs approximately 600 full-time, highly trained employees during regular operations and adds around 1,000 skilled contractors during scheduled refueling outages, which take place every 18-24 months. These jobs have an economic impact that cumulatively totals in the billions of dollars each year in addition to the plants themselves generating significant tax revenues that help to fund schools and critical municipal activities.
NextEra Energy continues to invest in its nuclear fleet to help ensure that the plants are among the best in the industry and can efficiently and reliably deliver power that customers can count on. Whether helping FPL provide its Florida customers with one of the lowest bills in the state or ensuring that NextEra Energy Resources' utility customers have the power they need to meet demand, the NextEra Energy nuclear fleet is playing a key role in safely providing reliable and emissions-free energy to millions of Americans.
CREATING THE OPTION TO BUILD NEW NUCLEAR UNITS
In addition to upgrading existing facilities, FPL has been granted licensing to build two new nuclear units, that would total approximately 2,200 MW in capacity, or enough to power approximately 1.3 million homes, at our existing Turkey Point site south of Miami. FPL projects these units would provide the following benefits:
- Avoid more than 481 million tons of CO2 emissions in its first 60 years of operation, which is the equivalent of removing 91 million cars from the roads each year;
- Provide more than $170 billion in fuel savings;
- Use approximately 60 million gallons of reclaimed water each day, which will allow Miami-Dade County to meet half its water reuse goals; and
- Create 3,600 new construction jobs and about 800 permanent jobs once the new units begin generating power.