- Paul Brinkmann
- Reporter- South Florida Business Journal
- South Florida businesses and residents will start paying for Florida Power & Light’s nuclear expansion on power bills in January.
The Florida Public Service Commission has approved FPL’s $151 million plan to recover costs for construction of two new nuclear power units at Turkey Point Nuclear Plant near Homestead.
The commission voted to approve cost recovery on Monday for FPL and for another nuclear expansion plan for Progress Energy Florida.
PEF’s approved recovery is approximately $143 million for expansion at Levy Units 1 and 2, and adding capacity to its existing Crystal River 3 (CR3) nuclear plant.
FPL’s approved recovery includes costs adding capacity to St. Lucie Nuclear Plant Units 1 and 2.
The FPL projects are projected to add approximately 2,722 MW of new nuclear base load generation to FPL’s system, enough energy to power 1.4 million homes.
Estimated 2013 residential nuclear cost recovery, based on current sales forecast, is about $4.79 per month for the first 1,000 kilowatt hours (kWh) for PEF customers and about $1.69 per month for the first 1,000 kWh for FPL customers. Approved amounts for both PEF and FPL customer bills will be recovered through the fuel and capacity cost recovery charge on customer bills beginning in January.
Paul Brinkmann covers law, accounting, automotive, energy and environmental issues.
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