Florida Power & Light Company awarded the contract to build a natural gas pipeline and interconnection hub to Sabal Trail Transmission. A second natural gas pipeline will be built by Florida Southeast Connection.
The company deemed this proposal for additional natural gas transportation capacity to be the best, most economical solution for ensuring Florida’s continued access to the clean, affordable, U.S.-produced fuel necessary to meet the growing electricity needs of the state’s residents and businesses. FPL’s economic analysis showed that these projects will save FPL customers nearly USD 600M compared with the next closest proposal.
Sabal Trail’s Central Florida Hub will enable interconnections with both existing major natural gas pipelines and a new Florida Southeast Connection pipeline that will be built to link new system to FPL’s operations beginning in 2017.
Sabal Trail Transmission will invest roughly USD 3B for the construction of a new natural gas pipeline that will access the abundant reserves of various regions of the U.S. The
Sabal Trail pipeline will originate in south-western Alabama and transport natural gas to Georgia and Florida. It will terminate at a new Central Florida Hub south of Orlando, Fla., where it will interconnect with the two existing natural gas pipelines that currently serve peninsular Florida. To connect with FPL’s operations, Florida Southeast Connection will invest approximately USD 550M to construct a separate pipeline from Sabal Trail’s Central Florida Hub to FPL’s Martin Clean Energy Center in Indiantown, Fla.