List of power stations in Florida

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Sources of Florida electricity generation, March 2022[1]

  Natural Gas (73.8%)
  Nuclear (12.6%)
  Coal (5.6%)
  Non-hydroelectric renewables (7.4%)
  Petrolium-fired (0.6%)

This is a list of electricity-generating power stations in Florida, sorted by type and name. In 2020, Florida had a total summer capacity of 61,833 MW through all of its power plants, and a net generation of 250,828 GWh.[2]

Florida is the third largest generator of electricity in the nation behind Texas and Pennsylvania.[1] Major producers include Florida Power & Light, Duke Energy, JEA, and TECO Energy.

In 2020, the average price of electricity in Florida was 10.06 cents per kWh, ranking 21st-highest in the United States. The carbon dioxide produced was 848 lbs per MWh, ranking 24th in the United States.[2] The average price of electricity for residential use was 13.70 cents/kWh in February 2022, compared to 11.92 cents/kWh in February 2021.[3]

By energy source

Photovoltaic (PV)

Total estimated capacity: 2046.45 MW

Total estimated area used: 15,569 acres

Total estimated number of panels in use: 11,078,724 panels

Name Location Capacity

(MW)

Area
(Acres)		 Online Date # of Panels Owner Ref
Babcock Ranch Charlotte County 75
(139 Planned)		 440 2016 December 343,000 FPL [4][5]
Balm Hillsborough County 74.5 548 2018 September 736,226 TECO [6][7]
Barefoot Bay Brevard County 74.5 462 2018 March ~330,000 FPL [8]
Big Bend Hillsborough County 20 106 2017 March 202,300 TECO [7][9]
Blue Cypress Indian River County 74.5 432 2018 March ~330,000 FPL [10]
Bonnie Mine Polk County 37.5 352 349,439 TECO [7][11]
Citrus DeSoto County 74.5 841 2016 December FPL [12]
Coral Farms Putnam County 74.5 587 2018 January ~330,000 FPL [13]
CoTAL Solar Farm Leon County 20
DeSoto Next Generation Solar Energy Center DeSoto County 25
(300 Planned)		 235 2009 October 90,000 FPL [14]
Echo River Solar Suwannee County 74.5 ~500 ~330,000 FPL [15]
FL Solar 4, LLC Leon County 42
Grange Hall Hillsborough County 61.1 447 595,213 TECO [7]
Gulf Coast Solar Center I Valparaiso 30 240 371,325 [16]
Gulf Coast Solar Center II Navarre 40 336 472,800 [16]
Gulf Coast Solar Center III Bellview 50 366 599,775 [16]
Hamilton Jasper, Florida 74.9 2018 December Duke [17]
Hammock Hendry County 74.5 957 2018 March ~330,000 FPL [18]
Horizon Alachua County/Putnam County 74.5 684 2018 January ~330,000 FPL [19]
Imeson Solar Duval County 5 Imeson Solar Farm LLC
Indian River Indian River County 74.5 695 2018 January ~330,000 FPL [20]
Interstate Solar St. Lucie County 74.5 543 ~330,000 FPL [21]
Jacksonville Solar Duval County 15 100 2010 200,000 PSEG Solar Source LLC [22]
Lake Hancock Polk County 49.6 356 467,820 TECO [7][23]
Lithia Hillsborough County 74.5 580 742,194 TECO [7]
Loggerhead St. Lucie County 74.5 565 2018 March ~330,000 FPL [24]
Manatee Manatee County 74.5 762 2016 December 338,000 FPL [25]
Miami-Dade Miami-Dade County 74.5 465 ~330,000 FPL [26]
Northern Preserve Solar Baker County 74.5 FPL
Payne Creek Polk County 70.3 503 711,012 TECO [7]
Peace Creek Polk County 55.4 422 467,820 TECO [7]
Perry Solar Facility Taylor County 5.1 22 2016 October Duke Energy Florida [27]
Pioneer Trail Volusia County 74.5 1,219 2019 ~330,000 FPL [28]
Space Coast Next Generation Solar Energy Center Brevard County
(Kennedy Space Center)		 10 60 2010 April 35,000 FPL
NASA		 [29]
Sunshine Gateway Columbia County 74.5 953 2019 January ~330,000 FPL [30]
Suwannee Solar Facility Suwannee County 8.8 70 2017 December <44,000 Duke Energy Florida [31]
Wildflower DeSoto County 74.5 721 2018 January ~330,000 FPL [32]

Small-Scale PV Installations (<5MW)

Name Location Capacity (MW) Online Date # of Panels Owner Ref
Hecate Energy Blair Road LLC Duval County 4 Hecate Energy
Solar Circuit
Daytona International Speedway		 Volusia County 2.1 2016 February 7,000 FPL [33][34]
Solar Research Installation
Florida International University		 Miami-Dade County 1.4 2016 April 4,400 FIU & FPL [35]
Solar-Paneled Parking Canopy
LEGOLAND Florida Resort		 Polk County 1.4 5,225 [7][36][37]
Solar-Paneled Parking Canopy
Palm Beach Zoo		 Palm Beach County .1 2016 June Palm Beach Zoo & FPL [33][38]
Solar-Paneled Parking Canopy
Palmetto Estuary Preserve		 Manatee County .05 2016 City of Palmetto & FPL [39][40]
Solar-Paneled Parking Canopy
Tampa International Airport		 Hillsborough County 1.6 2016 February 6,175 Tampa International Airport & TECO [7][41]
Solar-Paneled Parking Canopy
Young at Art Museum		 Broward County .1 2016 April Young at Art Museum & FPL [42]

Integrated solar combined cycle (ISCC)

Name Location Capacity

(MW)

Area
(Acres)		 Online Date # of Solar Thermal Collectors Owner Ref
Martin Next Generation Solar Energy Center Martin County 75 500 2010 December 6,864 (192,192 mirrors) FPL [43]

Hydroelectric

Name Location Net Summer

Capacity

(MW)

Owner Ref
Jim Woodruff Dam Chattahoochee 43.5 USACE - Mobile District

Natural gas

Total estimated capacity: 36,359 MW

Name Capacity

(MW)

Details Ref
Anclote 1013 2-Unit Natural Gas Steam [44]
Arvah B. Hopkins 484.5 2-Unit Fossil Steam; Natural Gas Fired Combustion Turbine; Natural Gas Fired Combined Cycle; Natural Gas Internal Combustion Engine [45]
Avon Park 24 2-Unit Combustion Turbine
Bartow 1133 Combined Cycle (4 Gas, 1 Steam Turbine) & 4 Combustion Turbines [46]
Big Bend Power Station 56 4-Unit Coal, 3-Unit Combustion Turbine Peaking [47]
Brandy Branch Generating Station 710 170 MW simple-cycle natural gas combustion turbine, 2-on-1 combined cycle unit consisting of two 170 MW natural gas combustion turbines and 200 MW steam turbine-electric generator [48]
C.D. McIntosh Power Plant 360 Combined Cycle Natural Gas [49]
Cape Canaveral 1290 Unit 1 (3X1 Combine Cycle)Gas/Oil [50]
Citrus Combined Cycle Plant 1640 820 MW natural gas combined-cycle turbines (2 units) [51]
Covanta Lee 57.4 Two 600 ton-per-day (TPD) waterwall furnaces and one 636 TPD with Martin® reverse-reciprocating grates and ash handling system
Crystal River Energy Complex 1610 700 MW fossil-fuel fired generators (2 units) [52][51]
DeBary 237 10-Unit Combustion Turbine [53]
Deerhaven Generating Station 185 Simple-cycle combustion turbine [54]
Fort Myers 2378 Combine Cycle (6 x 2) 2 Peaking Units : 2 Gas/Oil, [50]
George E. Turner Power Plant 147 Combustion Turbine
H.L. Culbreath Bay Side 1854 Natural Gas [55]
Higgins 114 4-Unit Combustion Turbine
Hines Energy Complex 2054 4-Unit Combined Cycle
Indian River Power Plant 290 Converted to natural gas, waiting state approval to operate in 2015 [56]
Intercession City 534 14-Unit Combustion Turbine
J.H. Phillips 36 2-Unit Oil-fired [57]
J. D. Kennedy Generating Station 357.2 1-Unit Oil/Gas Combustion Turbine, 3 peaking units
Lansing Smith Electric Generating Plant 543 2-on-1 natural gas combined-cycle (1 unit) [58]
Larsen Memorial 124 Natural Gas, Diesel Back-Up [49][59]
Lauderdale 1223.6 2(2x1 Combine Cycle) with 2 Units maGas/Oil [50]
Manatee 1224 4-on-1 combined-cycle consisting of four 170 MW combustion turbines with 470 MW steam turbine-electric generator [50][60]
Martin Power Plant 2209 500 MW 2-on-1 combined-cycle generators (2 units), 1100 MW 4-on-1 combined-cycle generator

[50][61]

Northside Generating Station 524 3-Unit Steam, 4-Unit Diesel Peaking
Osprey Energy Center 583 1-Unit: combined-cycle [62]
Payne Creek Generating Station 350 Gas-Fired Combined Cycle
Pea Ridge 12 5 MW natural-gas generators (3 units) [63][64]
Pensacola Florida Plant 98 Natural Gas Fired Combustion Turbine; Natural Gas Steam Turbine
Polk Power Plant 1281 Unit 1 Integrated Coal Gasification Combined-Cycle, Units 2&3 Gas/Oil Combustion Turbine, Units 4&5 Natural Gas [65][66]
Port Everglades 1237 12 Unit Gas/Oil - repowered to 1 3x1 Gas/Oil unit [50][67]
Rio Pinar 12 Oil-Fired Peaker 1-Unit Combustion Turbine
Riviera 1290 1 Unit Gas/Oil (3x1 Combine Cycle) [50]
S. O. Purdom 226 Natural Gas Fired Combined Cycle [68]
Sanford 2352 2 4x1 Units Gas [50]
Santa Rosa Energy Center 235.9 1-Unit: combined-cycle [69]
Standby Generation Plant 14 Natural Gas Internal Combustion Engine
Stanton Energy Center 295 Unit A&B Combined Cycle, Units 1&2 Coal, 6 MW Solar farm [70][71][72]
Sub 12 18.6 Natural Gas Internal Combustion Engine
Suwannee River 99 3-Unit Combustion Turbine
Tiger Bay Cogeneration Facility 200 Combustion turbine, heat recovery steam turbine generator, and steam generation boiler [73]
Tom G. Smith Power Plant 57.5 30 MW combined-cycle generator [74]
Treasure Coast Energy Center 318 1-Unit Natural Gas [75]
Turkey Point Nuclear Plant 1253 1 combined-cycle gas-fired turbine
University of Florida 42.5 1-Unit Combustion Turbine
Vero Beach 117
West County Energy Center 3756 1250 MW 3-on-1 natural gas-fired combined cycle turbines (3 units) [50][76]

Nuclear

Total estimated capacity: 3626 MW

Name Net Summer

Capacity (MW)

Details Ref
St. Lucie Nuclear Power Plant 1968 2x C-E 2-loop [50]
Turkey Point Nuclear Plant 1658 2x Westinghouse 3-loop nuclear PWR [50][77]

Petroleum

Total estimated capacity: 3355 MW

Name Net Summer

Capacity (MW)

Details Ref
Avon Park 24
Bayboro 171
C. D. Macintosh Jr. 5
DeBary 322
Field Street 44
Fort Myers 108
Intercession City 417
Lansing Smith Electric Generating Plant 32 [58]
Manatee 1618 [60]
Marathon Generating Plant 11
Northside Generating Station 212
P. L. Bartow 82
Polk Power Plant 59
Stock Island 114.5
Suwannee River 50 3-Unit Oil-fired Steam
Tom G. Smith 36
Winston 50

Coal

Total estimated capacity: 7472 MW

Name Net Summer

Capacity

(MW)

Opening Date Scheduled
Retirement 		Details Ref
Big Bend Power Station 1602 Unit 1: 1970 (445.5 MW)
Unit 2: 1973 (445.5 MW)
Unit 3: 1976 (445.5 MW)
Unit 4: 1985 (486.0 MW) 		2021 - Unit 2 Unit 1 is scheduled to switch to natural gas before 2023 [47][78]
Crystal River Energy Complex 1422 Unit 1: 1966 (440.5 MW)
Unit 2: 1969 (523.8 MW)
Unit 4: 1982 (739.2 MW)
Unit 5: 1984 (739.2 MW) 		Units 1 and 2 were retired in December 2018
Unit 3 is listed under "Decommissioned stations and units" (Nuclear) 		[52][51][79]
Deerhaven Generating Station 232 Unit 2: 1981 (250.7 MW) [54][80]
James F. Crist Generating Plant 924 Unit 4: 1959 (93.7 MW)
Unit 5: 1961 (93.7 MW)
Unit 6: 1970 (369.7 MW)
Unit 7: 1973 (578.0 MW) 		2025 - Unit 4
2027 - Unit 5 		Units 4 and 5 were retired from coal after Hurricane Sally Nov 2020[81]

Units 6 and 7 were converted from coal-fired to gas-fired in 2020

[63][82]
Northside Generating Station 586 Unit 1: 1966 (297.5 MW)
Unit 2: 1972 (297.5 MW) 		[83]
Polk Power Plant 161 Unit 1: 1996 (192.9 MW) [84]
Seminole Generating Station 1309 Unit 1: 1984 (735.9 MW)
Unit 2: 1985 (735.9 MW) 		[85]
Stanton Energy Center 894 Unit 1: 1987 (464.5 MW)
Unit 2: 1996 (464.5 MW) 		2040 Both units will convert to natural gas before the end of 2027 [70][71][72][86]

Decommissioned stations and units

Name City Nameplate

Capacity

(MW)

Owner Details Ref
C. H. Corn Lake Talquin 12 City of Tallahassee [87]
Crystal River Energy Complex Crystal River 1855 Duke Energy Coal (2 units), Babcock & Wilcox nuclear PWR (1 unit) [88]
Indiantown Cogeneration LP Indiantown 330 Florida Power & Light [56][89]
St. Johns River Power Park Jacksonville 1264 FPL, JEA Coal/petroleum coke (whole plant; 2 units) [90]
Turkey Point Nuclear Generating Station Homestead 808 Florida Power & Light Foster-Wheeler gas/oil turbines (2 units) [50]

All stations

See also

Notes

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