TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WTXL) - More than 75 percent of all outages have been restored by more than 30,000 personnel across Florida, making this the largest power restoration undertaking in history for a single state.
Governor Rick Scott's office shared the progress in a Friday press release.
As of 12 p.m., the office reports that there are outages for more than 1.6. million accounts:
Florida Electric Cooperatives Assoc.
More than 760,000 customers were impacted by the storm. Power has already been restored to more than 646,000 customers.
Approximately 4,100 cooperative workers from Florida and 10 other states have deployed to the hurricane impact zone to assist with restoration efforts.
- Municipal Utilities
More than 800,000 customers were impacted by the storm. Power has already been restored to more than 660,000 customers.
Restoration is expected to be completed by the night of Sunday, September 17th, except hardest hit areas, such as Key West, which will take longer to restore.
Several utilities such as Tallahassee, Kissimmee and Jacksonville Beach are close to being fully restored. In addition, several smaller utilities like Newberry are already 100% restored.
- Duke Energy
More than 1.3 million customers were impacted by the storm. Power has already been restored to more than 1 million customers.
Duke Energy expects power restoration to be completed for western service areas the night of Friday, September 15th.
Duke Energy expects power restoration to be completed for central and northern service areas the night of Sunday, September 17th.
- Florida Power and Light
In total, 4.4 million customers were impacted by the storm. Power has already been restored to more than 3.3 million customers.
FPL expects power restoration to be completed for the East Coast the night of Sunday, September 17th.
FPL expects power restoration to be completed for the West Coast by Friday, September 22nd.
Tampa Electric
In total, 425,000 of Tampa Electric’s 730,000 customers were impacted by the storm. Power has already been restored to more than 385,000 customers.
Tampa Electric expects to restore power to essentially all customers the night of Sunday, September 17th.
