An Electrifying Journey: How Electricity Is Delivered to You

FPL has been supplying electricity to Florida for more than 75 years and is now the largest electric utility in the state. It provides service to nearly 8 million people, or about half the state of Florida. FPL produces electricity at 34 generating plants and delivers this through a system that includes 1.3 million poles and more than 70,000 miles of overhead and underground transmission and distribution lines.

This is how electricity travels from our facilities to your business:

• When energy leaves a power plant, it enters the electric system at a substation. Since very high electric voltages are required to move electricity long distances, the substation located at the power plant increases the voltage.
• The energy then travels from the power plant substation through transmission lines to a substation located in an individual service area, such as your business district or neighborhood.
• The substation near your business district or neighborhood reduces the high transmission strength voltage to a lower level that is suitable for local distribution lines. The electricity is transferred to the local distribution lines at this substation.
• The distribution line carries the electricity to a transformer, a device used for reducing voltage to a safe level for your business, which matches the electricity to the needs of your business.
• A "service line" carries this electricity, in either underground or overhead lines, directly from the transformer into the meter at your business.