Company type | Subsidiary |
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Industry | Utilities |
Founded | 1925 |
Defunct | 2022 |
Fate | Absorbed into Florida Power & Light |
Headquarters | Pensacola, Florida, USA |
Key people | Marlene Santos ( President) [1] |
Number of employees | 1,270 |
Parent | NextEra Energy |
Website |
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Gulf Power Company (GPC) was a U.S. electric utility founded in 1925 and headquartered in Pensacola, Florida. It had over 450,000 customers in 10 counties and 71 towns in northwest Florida, and a generating capacity of 2.278 GW. [2]
GPC was founded in 1925, and was acquired by Juno Beach-based NextEra Energy (the parent company of Florida Power & Light) in 2019. [3] In 2021 GPC was legally merged into Florida Power & Light. NextEra has stated it will operate GPC as a separate company within FPL through 2021. [4] In early 2022 it was absorbed into FPL as its Northwest Florida division. [5]
Gulf Power Company was headquartered in Pensacola, Florida, [6] and has a service territory that spans 7,550 square miles (19,600 km2) in 10 counties and 71 towns in northwest Florida. Gulf Power had approximately 465,000 customers in Florida. [2]
Gulf Power Company owned 1,600 miles (2,600 km) of transmission lines and 7,636 miles (12,289 km) of distribution lines (1,748 underground) that stretch from the western Alabama border to the Apalachicola River and from the northern Alabama border to the Gulf of Mexico. [7] Gulf Power served 394,772 retail customers directly and another 14,128 customers through the wholesale delivery of electricity to one investor-owned electric utility and one municipality.
Plant | Nearest City | Units | Total Capacity |
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James F. Crist Electric Generating Plant | Pensacola, Florida | 4 | 930,000 kW |
Gulf Power also owns a percentage of the following generating units [9] | |||
Plant | Nearest City | Ownership Percentage | Total Capacity |
Victor J. Daniel Electric Generating Plant ( Plant Daniel) | Escatawpa, Mississippi | 506,500 kW (50%) | 2,000,000 kW |
Robert W. Scherer Steam-Electric Generating Plant ( Plant Scherer) | Juliette, Georgia | 210,900 kW (25%) | 3,272,000 kW |
Commercial generation Pea Ridge | Pea Ridge, Florida | 15,000 kW |
Gulf Power Company was the largest single taxpayer in northwest Florida. The company’s city, county, state and federal taxes totaled $132.4 million for 2007 – amounting to 10.5 cents out of every dollar earned by the company or $311 per customer. In 2007, the company supported local agencies, chambers of commerce, economic development groups and the United Way as well as other charitable organizations with nearly $1.2 million. Gulf Power employees also contributed more than $80,000 to various philanthropies in northwest Florida. [10]
As of 2011, Gulf Power had reduced its overall plant emissions by 85 percent since 1992, while adding 135,000 customers over that time period. [10]
List of power stations in Florida