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30 April 2008 -- Florida Power & Light (FPL) announced a proposal to modernize its power plants at Riviera Beach and Cape Canaveral to high-efficiency natural gas units.
The current generating units at the Riviera power plant went into service in 1962 and 1963 and generate 280 MW each. The Riviera Beach Next Generation Clean Energy Center, scheduled to go online in 2014, will have a combined cycle natural gas unit able to produce 1,250 MW.
Cape Canaveral's existing units came online in 1965 and 1969 and generate 400 MW each. The Cape Canaveral Next Generation Clean Energy Center, scheduled to go into service in 2013, will also have a combined cycle natural gas unit able to produce 1,250 MW.
The new units will be designed to use at least 33 percent less fuel to produce the same amount of power. They are also said to be able to reduce particulate emissions by 88 percent at these sites and improve the plants' CO2 emission rate by 50 percent.
Modernizing the two plants is pending approval to build a third natural gas unit at the company's West County facility in Palm Beach County, which will be necessary to provide a "reserve margin" of generating capacity to take the Riviera Beach and Cape Canaveral plants offline to upgrade them. FPL filed a determination of need petition for the third West County unit with the Florida Public Service Commission on April 8.
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