Milton Takes Aim at Central Florida Power Grid

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Researched by Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas)--With debris still in the streets from Helene, Florida is bracing for a second hurricane in as many weeks, with Milton bearing down on Tampa.

Industrial Info will be monitoring many natural gas- and coal-fired power plants on the western central coast, including:

• Anclote 1,113 megawatts (MW)
• Fort Myers 2,672 MW
• Big Bend 1,875 MW
• Polk 1,602 MW
• Bayside 2,294 MW
• Bartow 1,475 MW

Click on the image at right for Industrial Info's Disaster Impact Tracker map of the power facilities in the projected path of Hurricane Milton.

This area of Florida also has a high density of small solar farms that might be impacted by the storm. The 2,000-megawatt St. Lucie Nuclear Power Station on the east coast may even be in the path on the backside of the storm as it exits into the Atlantic. This could delay the plant's Unit 2 refueling project currently underway.

US Power Outages is reporting much of the Helene damage to the power grid has been restored in Florida with preparations now happening for a Milton response.

Florida's power grid is managed by regional players, which means keeping track of outages in the central part of Florida is a challenge. Each of these utilities will play a role in getting the lights back on after this storm: Florida's power grid is managed by regional players, which means keeping track of outages in the central part of Florida a challenge. Each of these utilities will play a role in getting the lights back on after this storm:

Central Florida Electric Cooperative (CFEC), Withlacoochee River Electric Cooperative (WREC), Tampa Electric, Florida Power and Light, Peace River Electric Cooperative (PREC), Duke Energy Florida, Lakeland Electric, SECO Energy, Orlando Utilities Commission (OUC), Glades Electric Cooperative, Fort Pierce Utilities Authority, Kissimmee Utility Authority and New Smyrna Beach Utilities.

This is some of what the state of Florida is involved with in regard to preparations:
Resources prepped and staged strategically (close to the projected path for quick implementation)

• Cut & Toss Ops = 328 team members on standby
• Over 1,015 generators
• Over 350 pieces of heavy equipment and trucks
• 67 pumps pre-positioned
• Satellite internet equipment= 58 Starlink devices
• Over 1,900 team members on standby for various emergency response efforts, including, damage assessment, flooding, traffic signals outages, etc.
• FDOT has 20 drone pilots on standby
• 8 ITS trailers staged
• Over 150 bridge inspectors on standby

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