Power Restoration in Broward, Manatee and Sarasota Counties to be Completed Tonight; Round-the-Clock Effort Continues.MIAMI -- Florida Power & Light Company crews are continuing to make progress restoring power. Five days after Hurricane Frances pounded Florida, FPL has restored power to nearly 2.4 million homes and businesses out of the 2.8 million that lost power from the storm. Essentially all customers in Broward, Manatee and Sarasota counties will be restored by midnight tonight. As restoration is being completed in these areas, crews have been moving to supplement the massive restoration underway along Florida's east coast from Palm Beach County north to St. Johns County. More than 9,000 FPL field restoration personnel and some 7,100 out-of-state crews are involved in the restoration effort. FPL also is continuing to monitor the progress of Hurricane Ivan. If Ivan becomes an imminent threat to Florida, the company will implement hurricane procedures which include measures to keep FPL and out-of-state field personnel safe and out of harm's way in Florida. Depending on the storm's projected track, some FPL crews may have to temporarily return to their home base as early as tomorrow to secure their homes for Ivan. While FPL expects to retain most of the out-of-state crews in the restoration effort here, some of those crews may have to return to their home territories if they could be affected by Ivan. In the meantime, restoration efforts related to Hurricane Frances will continue as long as conditions are safe. Hurricane Frances: September 10, 2004 (9:30 p.m.) Affected Counties Out Restored Affected ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Alachua 600 700 1,300 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Baker 200 4,800 5,000 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Bradford 1,000 3,200 4,200 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Brevard 67,300 187,300 254,600 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Broward - 590,600 590,600 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Charlotte - 21,000 21,000 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Clay - 900 900 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Collier - 39,200 39,200 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Columbia 1,000 10,700 11,700 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- DeSoto - 8,700 8,700 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Flagler 7,500 30,700 38,200 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Glades 400 1,300 1,700 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Hendry - 2,500 2,500 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Highlands 400 - 400 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Indian River 31,000 13,000 44,000 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Lee - 60,700 60,700 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Manatee - 70,300 70,300 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Martin 31,000 53,000 84,000 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Miami-Dade - 423,400 423,400 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Nassau 500 13,300 13,800 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Okeechobee 9,200 8,800 18,000 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Palm Beach 156,500 503,500 660,000 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Putnam 6,000 13,700 19,700 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Sarasota - 48,900 48,900 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Seminole 3,200 48,200 51,400 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- St. Johns 12,800 42,200 55,000 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- St. Lucie 52,000 43,000 95,000 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Suwannee - 4,500 4,500 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Union - 1,600 1,600 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Volusia 34,900 121,100 156,000 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- TOTAL 415,500 2,370,800 2,786,300 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Florida Power & Light Company is the principal subsidiary of FPL Group, Inc. (NYSE: FPL), nationally known as a high quality, efficient and customer-driven organization focused on energy-related products and services. With annual revenues of more than $9 billion and a growing presence in 26 states, FPL Group is widely recognized as one of the country's premier power companies. Florida Power & Light Company serves more than 4.2 million customer accounts in Florida. FPL Energy, Inc., FPL Group's wholesale energy-generating subsidiary, is a leader in producing electricity from clean and renewable fuels. Additional information is available on the Internet at www.FPL.com, www.FPLGroup.com and www.FPLEnergy.com. Note to Editors: High-resolution logos and executive head shots are available for download at http://www.fpl.com/news/contents/logos.shtml . |
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