TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — A state-level regulatory agency that oversees public utilities is considering a Florida Power & Light’s proposal for a new project in South Florida’s western wildland.
The five-member Florida Public Service Commission met on Thursday for a hearing about the Andytown-Oasis project to place four 30-mile-long transmission lines from Broward County to Miami-Dade County.
FPL reported the proposed transmission lines are meant to deal with “an increase of approximately 220,000 new customers” from 2026 to 2033 in Miami-Dade, who will increase load by about 11%.
Despite the complexity of the project, Gov. Ron DeSantis’s appointees, Gabriella Passidomo Smith, Mike La Rosa, Gary F. Clark, Ana Ortega, and Bobby Payne did not have any questions during the meeting in Tallahassee.
One of the four transmission lines would start at FPL’s existing Andytown substation in Broward and end at FPL’s planned Oasis substation in Miami-Dade, according to the Florida PSC.
In Miami-Dade, a second line would start at FPL’s Quarry substation and end at the Oasis substation, and two other lines would start at Oasis, but one would end at Quarry and the other at the Levee substation.
According to FPL, after design and permitting is complete in 2028, construction would begin in 2029 and end in late 2033.
The Florida PSC members will receive post-meeting notes before they will have to decide if there is a public need for FPL’s proposed project.
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