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FPUA details water, gas and electric expansion plans; wastewater plant relocation nears completion
Summary
FPUA Director Javier Cisneros told the commission the agency is expanding electric capacity, modernizing the grid, building a new wastewater treatment plant with associated conveyance work and pursuing more than $77 million in grants to offset costs.
Javier Cisneros, director of utilities for the Fort Pierce Utilities Authority, told the City Commission on April 14 that FPUA is advancing multiple infrastructure projects, including electric substation upgrades, grid modernization, gas gate station work and construction of a relocated wastewater treatment plant with a multi‑phase conveyance system.
Cisneros said the electric system serves roughly 30,000 customers and has summer peak capacity around 123 megawatts; the utility is adding transformer capacity (upgrades at Hartman, Longwood, Savannah and Kings substations) and plans a new Totten substation transformer to add about 20 MVA, plus a potential southern corridor…
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