U.S. Nuclear Plants

St. Lucie
Florida

Unit 1 Nuclear system supplied by Combustion Engineering, Inc.
Capacity Net MW(e)	Generation in 2003 Megawatthours	Capacity Factor	Type	On-line Date	License Expiration Date
839	7,503,741	101.8 %	PWR	March 1, 1976	March 1, 2016
Unit 2 Nuclear system supplied by Combustion Engineering, Inc.
Capacity Net MW(e)	Generation in 2003 Megawatthours	Capacity Factor	Type	On-line Date	License Expiration Date
839	5,888,263	79.9 %	PWR	June 10, 1983	April 6, 2023

PWR= Pressurized Light Water Reactor

Description: This power plant is located on a 1,130-acre site near Ft. Pierce, Florida. The plant operator is the Florida Power & Light Company (FPL).

Ownership:Unit 1 is owned by the Florida Power & Light Group (FGL Group). Unit 2 is jointly owned by the FPL Group (85.1 percent), Florida Municipal Power Agency (8.8 percent), and the Orlando Utilities Commission (6.1 percent).

The Impact of the Nuclear Industry on Florida:

Highlights
Nuclear-provided Electricity Generation
Competition in the State Electricity Market
Environmental Trends: Emissions levels
Various Links to related sites.

Sources: Capacity, for purposes of this report, is the net summer capability as reported in Energy Information Administration (EIA) survey form 860, “Annual Electric Generator Report.” Capacity Factor is a calculation in which the maximum possible generation (based on net summer capability) is divided into the actual generation than multiplied by 100 to get a percentage. Generation is the electricity output reported by plant owners on EIA survey form 906. Type of Unit: All U.S. commercial reactors currently in operation are one of two types: BWR (boiling water reactor) or PWR (pressurized light water reactor). The type is identified in EIA’s Nuclear Power Generation and Fuel Cycle Report. Both the On-line Date and the License Expiration Date are reported annually in Information Digest by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

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