LAKE MARY, Fla., July 5, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Sabal Trail
Transmission, LLC (Sabal Trail), a joint venture of Spectra Energy
Partners, LP (NYSE: SEP), NextEra Energy, Inc., and Duke Energy,
announced today that on July 3, 2017,
it placed into commercial service its pipeline system and
facilities from Alexander City,
Alabama, to the Central Florida Hub in Kissimmee, Florida.
"Sabal Trail has successfully navigated a rigorous environmental
permitting process over the past four years while working with
landowners and key stakeholders to construct this new pipeline
system. With the completion of this project, Florida Power & Light and Duke Energy will
realize needed firm natural gas transportation services to meet
their power generation requirements. We are pleased to reach this
critical milestone and serve our customers in the Southeast U.S.,"
said Bill Yardley, President and
Chairman of the Board of Spectra Energy Partners.
Sabal Trail will provide 400,000 dekatherms per day of firm
transportation to Florida Power
& Light in time for them to meet their peak cooling
season. Additionally, Duke Energy Florida will accept 300,000
dekatherms of firm delivery daily once its Citrus County combined-cycle natural gas plant
is ready to receive natural gas. The 515-mile pipeline will have
the capacity to deliver approximately 1.1 billion cubic feet of
natural gas per day to the Southeast U.S. once approved future
compression expansions occur.
For more information on Sabal Trail, visit
www.sabaltrail.com.
Spectra Energy Partners
Spectra Energy Partners, LP
(NYSE: SEP), an Enbridge Inc. company, is a Houston-based master limited partnership. SEP
is one of the largest pipeline MLPs in the United States and connects growing supply
areas to high-demand markets for natural gas and crude oil. These
assets include more than 15,000 miles of transmission pipelines,
approximately 170 billion cubic feet of natural gas storage, and
approximately 5.6 million barrels of crude oil storage.
NextEra Energy
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, Fla., NextEra Energy's
principal subsidiaries are Florida
Power & Light Company, which serves approximately 4.9
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.
Duke Energy
Headquartered in Charlotte, N.C., Duke Energy is one of the
largest energy holding companies in the
United States. Its Electric Utilities and Infrastructure
business unit serves approximately 7.5 million customers located in
six states in the Southeast and Midwest. The company's Gas
Utilities and Infrastructure business unit distributes natural gas
to approximately 1.6 million customers in the Carolinas,
Ohio, Kentucky and Tennessee. Its Commercial Renewables business
unit operates a growing renewable energy portfolio across
the United States.
Duke Energy is a Fortune 125 company traded on the New York
Stock Exchange under the symbol DUK. More information about the
company is available at duke-energy.com.
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SOURCE Spectra Energy Partners, LP