List of power stations in Florida

Sources of Florida utility-scale electricity generation, full-year 2023:[1]

  Natural gas (75.8%)
  Nuclear (11.5%)
  Solar (5.4%)
  Coal (4.5%)
  Biomass (1.4%)
  Petroleum (0.5%)
  Hydroelectric (0.1%)
  Other (0.9%)
Florida electricity production by type

This is a list of electricity-generating power stations in Florida, sorted by type and name. In 2022, Florida had a total summer capacity of 66,883 MW through all of its power plants, and a net generation of 258,910 GWh.[2]

Florida is the third largest generator of electricity in the nation behind Texas and Pennsylvania.[3] Major producers include Florida Power & Light, Duke Energy, JEA, and TECO Energy.

In 2020, the average price of electricity in Florida was 10.06 cents per kWh, ranking 21st-highest in the United States. The carbon dioxide produced was 848 lbs per MWh, ranking 24th in the United States.[2] The average price of electricity for residential use was 13.70 cents/kWh in February 2022, compared to 11.92 cents/kWh in February 2021.[4]

By energy source

Photovoltaic (PV)

See also: Solar power in Florida

As of Q1 2023, Florida has over 11,700 MW of installed solar capacity, including small residential solar.[5] Only projects larger than 10 MW are listed.

Name Location Capacity

(MW)

Area
(acres)		 Online date # of panels Owner Ref
Babcock Ranch Charlotte County 75
(139 planned)		 440 2016 December 343,000 FPL [6][7]
Balm Hillsborough County 74.5 548 2018 September 736,226 TECO [8][9]
Barefoot Bay Brevard County 74.5 462 2018 March ~330,000 FPL [10]
Big Bend Hillsborough County 20 106 2017 March 202,300 TECO [9][11]
Blue Cypress Indian River County 74.5 432 2018 March ~330,000 FPL [12]
Bonnie Mine Polk County 37.5 352 349,439 TECO [9][13]
Citrus DeSoto County 74.5 841 2016 December FPL [14]
Coral Farms Putnam County 74.5 587 2018 January ~330,000 FPL [15]
CoTAL Solar Farm Leon County 20
Debary Solar Power Plant Volusia County 74.5 445 2020 May 300,000 Duke Energy [16][17]
DeSoto Next Generation Solar Energy Center DeSoto County 25
(300 planned)		 235 2009 October 90,000 FPL [18]
Echo River Solar Suwannee County 74.5 ~500 ~330,000 FPL [19]
FL Solar 4, LLC Leon County 42
Fort Drum Solar Energy Center Okeechobee County 74.5 840 June 2021 309,120 FPL [20][21]
Grange Hall Hillsborough County 61.1 447 595,213 TECO [9]
Gulf Coast Solar Center I Valparaiso 30 240 371,325 [22]
Gulf Coast Solar Center II Navarre 40 336 472,800 [22]
Gulf Coast Solar Center III Bellview 50 366 599,775 [22]
Hamilton Jasper, Florida 74.9 2018 December Duke [23]
Hammock Hendry County 74.5 957 2018 March ~330,000 FPL [24]
Horizon Alachua County/Putnam County 74.5 684 2018 January ~330,000 FPL [25]
Indian River Indian River County 74.5 695 2018 January ~330,000 FPL [26]
Interstate Solar St. Lucie County 74.5 543 ~330,000 FPL [27]
Jacksonville Solar Duval County 15 100 2010 200,000 PSEG Solar Source LLC [28]
Lake Hancock Polk County 49.6 356 467,820 TECO [9][29]
Lithia Hillsborough County 74.5 580 742,194 TECO [9]
Loggerhead St. Lucie County 74.5 565 2018 March ~330,000 FPL [30]
Manatee Manatee County 74.5 762 2016 December 338,000 FPL [31]
Miami-Dade Miami-Dade County 74.5 465 ~330,000 FPL [32]
Northern Preserve Solar Baker County 74.5 FPL
Payne Creek Polk County 70.3 503 711,012 TECO [9]
Peace Creek Polk County 55.4 422 467,820 TECO [9]
Pioneer Trail Volusia County 74.5 1,219 2019 ~330,000 FPL [33]
Space Coast Next Generation Solar Energy Center Brevard County
(Kennedy Space Center)		 10 60 2010 April 35,000 FPL
NASA		 [34]
Sunshine Gateway Columbia County 74.5 953 2019 January ~330,000 FPL [35]
Suwannee Solar Facility Suwannee County 8.8 70 2017 December <44,000 Duke Energy Florida [36]
Wildflower DeSoto County 74.5 721 2018 January ~330,000 FPL [37]

Integrated solar combined cycle (ISCC)

Name Location Capacity

(MW)

Area
(acres)		 Online date # of solar thermal collectors Owner Ref
Martin Next Generation Solar Energy Center Martin County 75 500 2010 December 6,864 (192,192 mirrors) FPL [38]

Hydroelectric

Name Location Net summer

capacity (MW)

Owner Ref
Jim Woodruff Dam Chattahoochee 43.5 USACE - Mobile District

Natural gas

Total estimated capacity: 36,359 MW

Name Capacity

(MW)

Details Ref
Anclote 1013 2-unit natural gas steam [39]
Arvah B. Hopkins 484.5 2-unit fossil steam; natural gas fired combustion turbine; natural gas fired combined cycle; natural gas internal combustion engine [40]
Avon Park 24 2-unit combustion turbine
Bartow 1133 Combined cycle (4 gas, 1 steam turbine) & 4 combustion turbines [41]
Big Bend Power Station 56 4-unit coal, 3-unit combustion turbine peaking [42]
Brandy Branch Generating Station 710 170 MW simple-cycle natural gas combustion turbine, 2-on-1 combined cycle unit consisting of two 170 MW natural gas combustion turbines and 200 MW steam turbine-electric generator [43]
C.D. McIntosh Power Plant 360 Combined cycle natural gas [44]
Cape Canaveral 1290 Unit 1 (3X1 combined cycle) gas/oil [45]
Citrus Combined Cycle Plant 1640 820 MW natural gas combined-cycle turbines (2 units) [46]
Reworld Lee[47] 57.4 Two 600 ton-per-day (TPD) waterwall furnaces and one 636 TPD with Martin® reverse-reciprocating grates and ash handling system
Crystal River Energy Complex 1610 700 MW fossil-fuel fired generators (2 units) [48][46]
DeBary 237 10-unit combustion turbine [49]
Deerhaven Generating Station 185 Simple-cycle combustion turbine [50]
Fort Myers 2378 Combined cycle (6 x 2) 2 peaking units: 2 gas/oil [45]
George E. Turner Power Plant 147 Combustion turbine
H.L. Culbreath Bay Side 1854 Natural gas [51]
Higgins 114 4-unit combustion turbine
Hines Energy Complex 2054 4-unit combined cycle
Indian River Power Plant 290 Converted to natural gas, waiting state approval to operate in 2015 [52]
Intercession City 534 14-unit combustion turbine
J.H. Phillips 36 2-unit oil-fired [53]
J. D. Kennedy Generating Station 357.2 1-unit oil/gas combustion turbine, 3 peaking units
Lansing Smith Electric Generating Plant 543 2-on-1 natural gas combined-cycle (1 unit) [54]
Larsen Memorial 124 Natural gas, diesel backup [44][55]
Lauderdale 1223.6 2 (2x1 combined cycle) with 2 units gas/oil [45]
Manatee 1224 4-on-1 combined-cycle consisting of four 170 MW combustion turbines with 470 MW steam turbine-electric generator [45][56]
Martin Power Plant 2209 500 MW 2-on-1 combined-cycle generators (2 units), 1100 MW 4-on-1 combined-cycle generator

[45][57]

Northside Generating Station 524 3-unit steam, 4-unit diesel peaking
Osprey Energy Center 583 1-unit: combined-cycle [58]
Payne Creek Generating Station 350 Gas-fired combined cycle
Pea Ridge 12 5 MW natural-gas generators (3 units) [59][60]
Pensacola Florida Plant 98 Natural gas fired combustion turbine; natural gas steam turbine
Polk Power Plant 1281 Unit 1 integrated coal gasification combined-cycle, units 2&3 gas/oil combustion turbine, units 4&5 natural gas [61][62]
Port Everglades 1237 12 unit gas/oil - repowered to 1 3x1 gas/oil unit [45][63]
Rio Pinar 12 Oil-fired peaker 1-unit combustion turbine
Riviera 1290 1 unit gas/oil (3x1 combined cycle) [45]
S. O. Purdom 226 Natural gas fired combined cycle [64]
Sanford 2352 2 4x1 units gas [45]
Santa Rosa Energy Center 235.9 1-unit: combined-cycle [65]
Standby Generation Plant 14 Natural gas internal combustion engine
Stanton Energy Center 295 Unit A&B combined cycle, units 1&2 coal, 6 MW solar farm [66][67][68]
Sub 12 18.6 Natural gas internal combustion engine
Suwannee River 99 3-unit combustion turbine
Tiger Bay Cogeneration Facility 200 Combustion turbine, heat recovery steam turbine generator, and steam generation boiler [69]
Tom G. Smith Power Plant 57.5 30 MW combined-cycle generator [70]
Treasure Coast Energy Center 318 1-unit natural gas [71]
Turkey Point Nuclear Plant 1253 1 combined-cycle gas-fired turbine
University of Florida 42.5 1-unit combustion turbine
Vero Beach 117
West County Energy Center 3756 1250 MW 3-on-1 natural gas-fired combined cycle turbines (3 units) [45][72]

Nuclear

Total estimated capacity: 3626 MW

Name Net summer

capacity (MW)

Details Ref
St. Lucie Nuclear Power Plant 1968 2 × C-E 2-loop nuclear PWR [45]
Turkey Point Nuclear Plant 1658 2 × Westinghouse 3-loop nuclear PWR [45][73]

Petroleum

Total estimated capacity: 3355 MW

Name Net summer

capacity (MW)

Details Ref
Avon Park 24
Bayboro 171
C. D. Macintosh Jr. 5
DeBary 322
Field Street 44
Fort Myers 108
Intercession City 417
Lansing Smith Electric Generating Plant 32 [54]
Manatee 1618 [56]
Marathon Generating Plant 11
Northside Generating Station 212
P. L. Bartow 82
Polk Power Plant 59
Stock Island 114.5
Suwannee River 50 3-unit oil-fired steam
Tom G. Smith 36
Winston 50

Coal

Total estimated capacity: 7472 MW

Name Net summer

capacity (MW)

Opening date Scheduled
retirement 		Details Ref
Big Bend Power Station 1602 Unit 1: 1970 (445.5 MW)
Unit 2: 1973 (445.5 MW)
Unit 3: 1976 (445.5 MW)
Unit 4: 1985 (486.0 MW) 		2021 - Unit 2 Unit 1 is scheduled to switch to natural gas before 2023. [42][74]
Crystal River Energy Complex 1422 Unit 1: 1966 (440.5 MW)
Unit 2: 1969 (523.8 MW)
Unit 4: 1982 (739.2 MW)
Unit 5: 1984 (739.2 MW) 		Units 1 and 2 were retired in December 2018.
Unit 3 is listed under "Decommissioned stations and units" (nuclear). 		[48][46][75]
Deerhaven Generating Station 232 Unit 2: 1981 (250.7 MW) [50][76]
James F. Crist Generating Plant 924 Unit 4: 1959 (93.7 MW)
Unit 5: 1961 (93.7 MW)
Unit 6: 1970 (369.7 MW)
Unit 7: 1973 (578.0 MW) 		2025 - Unit 4
2027 - Unit 5 		Units 4 and 5 were retired from coal after Hurricane Sally in Nov. 2020.[77]

Units 6 and 7 were converted from coal-fired to gas-fired in 2020.

[59][78]
Northside Generating Station 586 Unit 1: 1966 (297.5 MW)
Unit 2: 1972 (297.5 MW) 		[79]
Polk Power Plant 161 Unit 1: 1996 (192.9 MW) [80]
Seminole Generating Station 1309 Unit 1: 1984 (735.9 MW)
Unit 2: 1985 (735.9 MW) 		[81]
Stanton Energy Center 894 Unit 1: 1987 (464.5 MW)
Unit 2: 1996 (464.5 MW) 		2040 Both units will convert to natural gas before the end of 2027. [66][67][68][82]

Decommissioned stations and units

Name City Nameplate

capacity (MW)

Owner Details Ref
C. H. Corn Lake Talquin 12 City of Tallahassee [83]
Crystal River Energy Complex Crystal River 1855 Duke Energy Coal (2 units), Babcock & Wilcox nuclear PWR (1 unit) [84]
Indiantown Cogeneration LP Indiantown 330 Florida Power & Light [52][85]
St. Johns River Power Park Jacksonville 1264 FPL, JEA Coal/petroleum coke (whole plant; 2 units) [86]
Turkey Point Nuclear Generating Station Homestead 808 Florida Power & Light Foster-Wheeler gas/oil turbines (2 units) [45]

All stations

See also

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