FPL | Project Outreach
 

Project Outreach

FPL seeks a constructive and collaborative dialogue with our neighbors to provide information and gain input about our new nuclear project. Our goal is to ensure that interests and specific information particular to communities are taken into account and that we work respectfully with communities. For the past year, FPL has been meeting with the community to gather feedback about the project. Extensive outreach efforts have been critical to ensure the local community is informed.

FPL has presented information about the project to many organizations in the community. To date, we presented to more than 800 community members at-large describing the project and welcoming questions and feedback. We welcome opportunities to do so and if you would like us to present to your organization, please e-mail us your request at cleansafenuclear@FPL.com.

We have kept our customers informed of the project and its status through several mailings at key junctures of the project.

  • Letters were sent in 2007 to our neighbors around Turkey Point to inform them that we were considering building two additional nuclear units at Turkey Point.
  • In November of 2008, we identified potential transmission lines that would deliver the additional electricity being generated by the plant. We then informed customers and property owners in the area of the proposed routes being considered and invited them to an open house to learn more about the project.
  • The preferred routes were later selected in March 2009 and we again informed customers in the vicinity of those selected routes.
  • Most recently, we mailed customer and property owners in the vicinity of the proposed plant and its associated linear facilities, such as the transmission lines, to inform them that we filed a state Site Certification Application for Turkey Point 6 & 7, as the proposed plant is referred to.

In November and December of 2008, we held nine open houses in Miami-Dade County to provide information and collect public input. We informed the community of the open houses in a notice in the Miami Herald.

Working with local and county government agencies is as important as maintaining a dialogue with the community at large. We at FPL realize it is important to understand the long-term plans and needs for the areas as we also plan and invest for the future. Ongoing communication with government agencies has included:

  • One-on-one meetings with government staff personnel and elected officials,
  • Agency workshops where several government staff representatives got to hear and understand each others' plans for the communities and how our project could best be integrated, and 
  • Periodic work group meetings with representatives from different government agencies. This effort was especially helpful to identify features of the project, such as the use of reclaimed water for plant cooling purposes, that could best support the various agencies’ goals.

We periodically survey customers in the area to understand their questions and interest in the project and make sure we are addressing these. In November of 2007, we performed an online survey to approximately 63,000 customers in the vicinity of the proposed new power lines to identify their preference on where to place the new power lines.

There are several other ways that we have and will continue to provide you with information on the project as well as gather your feedback.