Gulf Power Company

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Gulf Power
Company type Subsidiary
Industry Utilities
Founded1925
Defunct2022
FateAbsorbed into Florida Power & Light
Headquarters Pensacola, Florida, USA
Key people
Marlene Santos (President) [1]
Number of employees
1,270
Parent NextEra Energy
Website www.fpl.com

Gulf Power Company (GPC) was a U.S. electric utility founded in 1925 and headquartered in Pensacola, Florida. It had over 450,000 customers in 10 counties and 71 towns in northwest Florida, and a generating capacity of 2.278 GW. [2]

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GPC was founded in 1925, and was acquired by Juno Beach-based NextEra Energy (the parent company of Florida Power & Light) in 2019. [3] In 2021 GPC was legally merged into Florida Power & Light. NextEra has stated it will operate GPC as a separate company within FPL through 2021. [4] In early 2022 it was absorbed into FPL as its Northwest Florida division. [5]

Overview

Gulf Power Company was headquartered in Pensacola, Florida, [6] and has a service territory that spans 7,550 square miles (19,600 km2) in 10 counties and 71 towns in northwest Florida. Gulf Power had approximately 465,000 customers in Florida. [2]

Gulf Power Company owned 1,600 miles (2,600 km) of transmission lines and 7,636 miles (12,289 km) of distribution lines (1,748 underground) that stretch from the western Alabama border to the Apalachicola River and from the northern Alabama border to the Gulf of Mexico. [7] Gulf Power served 394,772 retail customers directly and another 14,128 customers through the wholesale delivery of electricity to one investor-owned electric utility and one municipality.

History

Generating facilities

Fossil fuel power plants

PlantNearest CityUnitsTotal Capacity
James F. Crist Electric Generating Plant Pensacola, Florida 4930,000 kW
Gulf Power also owns a percentage of the following generating units [9]
PlantNearest CityOwnership PercentageTotal Capacity
Victor J. Daniel Electric Generating Plant (Plant Daniel) Escatawpa, Mississippi 506,500 kW (50%)2,000,000 kW
Robert W. Scherer Steam-Electric Generating Plant (Plant Scherer) Juliette, Georgia 210,900 kW (25%)3,272,000 kW
Commercial generation Pea Ridge Pea Ridge, Florida 15,000 kW

Community

Gulf Power Company was the largest single taxpayer in northwest Florida. The company’s city, county, state and federal taxes totaled $132.4 million for 2007 – amounting to 10.5 cents out of every dollar earned by the company or $311 per customer. In 2007, the company supported local agencies, chambers of commerce, economic development groups and the United Way as well as other charitable organizations with nearly $1.2 million. Gulf Power employees also contributed more than $80,000 to various philanthropies in northwest Florida. [10]

Environment & Conservation

As of 2011, Gulf Power had reduced its overall plant emissions by 85 percent since 1992, while adding 135,000 customers over that time period. [10]

See also

List of power stations in Florida

References

  1. "FPL Northwest Region | My Account".
  2. 1 2 "Our Company". Gulf Power. Retrieved September 5, 2021.
  3. 1 2 "NextEra Energy completes acquisition of Gulf Power from Southern Company" . Retrieved September 5, 2021.
  4. 1 2 "FPL reaches comprehensive four-year rate settlement agreement". Florida Power & Light Company. Retrieved September 5, 2021.
  5. FPL Northwest Division
  6. "FPL Northwest Region | My Account".
  7. "FPL Northwest Region | My Account".
  8. "FPL parent to buy gulf power".
  9. "FPL Northwest Region | My Account".
  10. 1 2 "Gulf Power | My Account" (PDF).