Substitution of fuel oil by coal derived alternate fuels at Florida Power and Light Company

Conference · Tue Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 1985

OSTI ID:5858019

Hevia, R A; Spencer, J R

Florida Power and Light is the fifth largest investor-owned electric utility in the country. It has a service territory that covers 35 counties, or 28,000 square miles, 2.5 million customers, and serves 5.6 million people. The total installed capacity is 13,470 MW, generated by four nuclear units, 36 oil and/or gas fired units, and 48 gas turbine units. Traditionally, FPL has been an oil-based utility. In 1979, this dependency on oil became obvious when 42 million barrels of oil were burned during the year. Since then, oil back-out has become a primary objective of FPL and FPL has been actively investigating ways to decrease fuel oil consumption. FPL's long term plans for new generation capacity call for the addition of 600 MW of coal capacity from the joint Jacsonville Electric Authority/FPL St. Johns River Power Park scheduled for initial operation in 1986 and 1987, and two new FPL coal units scheduled for initial operation in the mid to late 1990's. However, FPL has several oil-fired units, some of which would be good candidates for some type of conversion. The remaining life of these units is such that the capital required by a conversion could be recovered, and their design is liberal enough to allow for a conversion without significant derate or loss of capacity.

• OSTI ID: 5858019
• Report Number(s): CONF-851054-
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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