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FPL outlines multiyear program to bury neighborhood power lines to reduce outages
Summary
Florida Power & Light updated the Sarasota City Commission on its Storm Secure Underground Program (SSUP), describing data-driven area selection, outreach and construction sequencing, and local projects planned this year while answering commissioners' questions about timing, costs and customer protections.
Florida Power & Light Company officials told the Sarasota City Commission on July 21 that the utility’s Storm Secure Underground Program, known as SSUP, aims to improve reliability by converting selected overhead neighborhood distribution lines to underground service.
FPL area manager Devonie (Devonie) Iglesias and project staff said SSUP focuses on lines that show the worst historical performance in outages or vegetation-caused interruptions and uses a multi-year planning, outreach and construction cycle. SSUP staff said the company does not assess upfront costs to individual customers for projects that are undertaken through SSUP; customers within project boundaries are not charged an up-front fee for undergrounding carried out under the program.
SSUP staff laid out the program process and recent local activity. Troy Todd, lead project manager for the West Region, said the three-stage project timeline begins with conceptual…
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