Fp&l, Enforcement Staff In Settlement Talks Over February Outage, Utility Fears Penalties

摘要

Florida Power and Light may face dozens of reliability standard violations and millions of dollars in penalties for the utility's part in a power outage throughout southern and central Florida last February, according to a Securities and Exchange Commission filing.rnA fault in one of FP&L's substations on February 26 caused about 3,400 MW to be shed from the power grid and left nearly 600,000 customers without power. The outage affected 26 transmission lines and 38 substations, the company reported. Preliminary findings by FP&L in late February blamed the event on human error.rnFERC in March opened a non-public formal investigation into whether the outage involved violations of the mandatory reliability standards of North American Electric Reliability Corp. (IF, 24 March, 4).