About Florida EnergySecure Line

Project Update

FPL has put the development of a new natural gas pipeline on hold. FPL still believes Florida needs a third natural gas pipeline to enhance fuel security and give customers access to additional markets; however, given a revised load forecast, new natural gas supplies are not projected to be required until 2015-2016. As a result, we have not made any decisions concerning the future of this project.

Securing Florida’s Energy Future

Florida’s natural gas supply is vulnerable to disruption from hurricanes and tropical storms. To safeguard against these threats and meet planned energy demand, Florida must increase its supply of safe, dependable, efficient and clean natural gas, and diversify its natural gas delivery options.

In response to this need, FPL plans to build the Florida EnergySecure Line – a nearly 300-mile underground natural gas pipeline along the eastern portion of the state.

The proposed pipeline corridor would be constructed mostly along existing utility and transportation rights-of-way and would travel through as many as 14 counties from northeast to southeast Florida.

This pipeline would connect with a new pipeline that draws from natural gas sources in Texas, Louisiana and Arkansas – which would reduce the state’s dependence on natural gas from the Gulf of Mexico.

Florida EnergySecure Line Overview

FPL plans to build a nearly 300-mile underground natural gas pipeline along the eastern portion of the state of Florida. This new pipeline will connect with a new line that draws from inland natural gas sources.

How FPL plans to build the Florida EnergySecure Line

• More than 90 percent of the proposed pipeline route could be co-located with existing utility and transportation rights-of-way, thus minimizing environmental impacts.
• The pipeline would travel through as many as 14 counties from northeast to southeast Florida (Bradford County in the north to Martin County in the south.)
• In addition to the main pipeline, two lateral lines will connect the Florida EnergySecure Line to:
  • Cape Canaveral Next Generation Clean Energy Center in Brevard County
  • Riviera Beach Next Generation Clean Energy Center in Palm Beach County.
• The Florida EnergySecure Line projected cost will be approximately $1.5 billion.
  

 
How the Florida EnergySecure Line will benefit Florida

The project holds numerous benefits for Floridians, including:

• Stimulating jobs. The project will create 3,500 new construction jobs and will generate more than $400 million in additional property taxes in the counties it traverses over the lifetime of the project. According to a third-party economic impact analysis, more than 7,500 jobs will be created directly or indirectly by the Florida EnergySecure Line.
• Increasing the supply of clean natural gas to meet planned energy needs. Florida’s natural gas pipeline infrastructure is at capacity. To help ensure Florida’s energy future, we must increase our supply and delivery options for safe, dependable clean natural gas. About two-thirds of the natural gas capacity of the Florida EnergySecure Line would be used by the FPL Next Generation Clean Energy Centers at Cape Canaveral and Riviera Beach, where the existing plants are being modernized by replacing fuel oil and natural gas to solely natural gas to reduce emissions.
• Addressing the growing desire of Florida’s citizens for clean energy, an initiative that FPL has championed for decades.
• Diversifying the source of natural gas production beyond offshore Gulf of Mexico. Florida EnergySecure Line will broaden access to additional competitive markets for the supply of natural gas, while helping offset the risk of disruption to natural gas production and delivery from the Gulf of Mexico during hurricanes and tropical storms.