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How Electricity Is Delivered to You

delivering powerFPL has been supplying electricity to Florida for more than 75 years. We provide service to nearly 8 million people or about half the state of Florida and produce electricity at 34 generating plants. We deliver this through a system that includes 1.3 million poles and more than 70,000 miles of overhead and underground transmission and distribution lines. Power plants and substations are critical to the delivery of reliable electric service to your homes and businesses.

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

Power plants

  

Power plants: 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.

Transmission lines

 

Transmission lines and poles: The energy then travels from the power plant substation through transmission lines to a substation located in an individual service area, such as your neighborhood.

Substations

 

Substations: The substation near your 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.

Distribution lines and transformer

 

Distribution lines and transformers: The distribution lines carry the electricity to a transformer, a device used for reducing voltage to a level that matches the level of your home.

Service lines and meter

 

Service lines and meters
A "service line" carries this electricity, in either underground or overhead lines, into the meter at your home.

 

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 substation near your 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 energy then travels from the power plant substation through transmission lines to a substation located in an individual service area, such as your neighborhood. The distribution lines carry the electricity to a transformer, a device used for reducing voltage to a level that matches the level of your home. The distribution lines carry the electricity to a transformer, a device used for reducing voltage to a level that matches the level of your home. The distribution lines carry the electricity to a transformer, a device used for reducing voltage to a level that matches the level of your home. A "service line" carries this electricity, in either underground or overhead lines, into the meter at your home.