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| Florida Electric Power Industry |
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| Generation Type |
Thousand MWs |
% Total |
Category |
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| Petroleum-Fired |
7,340 |
34.20% |
Fossil Fuel |
| Natural Gas-Fired |
2,554 |
11.90% |
| Coal-Fired |
708 |
3.30% |
| Nuclear |
773 |
3.60% |
Clean |
| Other Renewables |
773 |
3.60% |
| Total Net Electricity Generation |
21,461 |
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While the Florida Energy industry is dominated by fossil fuel plants, there is a conscious shift to renewable and clean solutions.
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Florida Energy Industry can be broken down into 4 classes:
- Generators – Entities that produce the electricity. The image below (provided by Energy Information Agency) shows a majority of the energy producers in the sate of Florida and click here for a complete list of generators.
- Transmission – Entities that transmit the step-up power from the generators to the distribution center.
- Distributors – Entities that run the power from the transmission lines to the end-user. These include private owned companies, municipals, and cooperatives. Click here for a complete list of distribution companies.
- Support Organizations - Maintenance teams, service teams, smart grid personnel, and hundreds of other small businesses. In fact for every 1 job in the energy industry 4.208 other jobs are created.
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