JUNO BEACH, Fla., Sept. 15, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- The NextEra
Energy Foundation, the charitable arm of Florida Power & Light Company and its
parent, NextEra Energy, Inc., today announced it is donating
$1 million to the Florida Disaster
Fund to support relief efforts in the wake of Hurricane Irma.
In addition, the Foundation will match individual contributions
by employees of FPL and other NextEra Energy subsidiaries. Florida
is home to more than 10,000 of the company's employees.
"Hurricane Irma is one of the largest and most devastating
storms to ever impact Florida, and all Floridians are recovering.
Thousands of FPL employees and partners from across the country are
working day and night to help get Florida back up and running,"
said Jim Robo, NextEra Energy
chairman and CEO. "NextEra Energy is a Florida company. We work
here, and we live here. Like many Floridians, many of our employees
have been impacted personally by Irma's wrath, and every day in the
field we see fellow Floridians whose homes and businesses were
damaged and lives uprooted by this brutal force of nature."
"The commitment and heart of the men and women with whom I have
the privilege of working is humbling. As energy company employees
in the aftermath of a hurricane, restoring power is our imperative.
As Floridians recovering from a massive natural disaster, helping
our communities rebuild is our duty," Robo said.
Earlier this week, Hurricane Irma made landfall in Florida as a Category 4 hurricane and swept
nearly the entire state, causing damage in all 35 counties FPL
serves and interrupting electric service for approximately 4.4
million of FPL's 5 million customer accounts. Across the state,
millions have been impacted, and FPL and other electric utilities
continue to work around the clock to restore power to all
Floridians.
NextEra Energy, Inc.
NextEra Energy, Inc. (NYSE: NEE) is a leading clean energy
company with consolidated revenues of approximately $16.2 billion, approximately 45,900 megawatts of
generating capacity, which includes megawatts associated with
noncontrolling interests related to NextEra Energy Partners, LP
(NYSE: NEP), and approximately 14,700 employees in 30 states and
Canada as of year-end 2016.
Headquartered in Juno Beach,
Florida, NextEra Energy's principal subsidiaries are
Florida Power & Light Company,
which serves nearly 5 million customer accounts in
Florida and is one of the largest
rate-regulated electric utilities in the
United States, and NextEra Energy Resources, LLC, which,
together with its affiliated entities, is the world's largest
generator of renewable energy from the wind and sun. Through its
subsidiaries, NextEra Energy generates clean, emissions-free
electricity from eight commercial nuclear power units in
Florida, New Hampshire, Iowa and Wisconsin. A Fortune 200 company and included
in the S&P 100 index, NextEra Energy has been recognized often
by third parties for its efforts in sustainability, corporate
responsibility, ethics and compliance, and diversity, and has been
ranked No. 1 in the electric and gas utilities industry in
Fortune's 2017 list of "World's Most Admired Companies." For more
information about NextEra Energy companies, visit these websites:
www.NextEraEnergy.com, www.FPL.com,
www.NextEraEnergyResources.com.
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