JUNO BEACH, FLORIDA - Florida Power & Light Company (FPL) recorded its best-ever overall reliability in 2019 due to continued improvements to the energy grid, the company revealed in its annual reliability report.

FPL has invested over $5 billion since 2006 to improve the grid and provide outstanding service reliability to its customers. These improvements led to the company's best-ever overall reliability performance last year. For the fourth time in five years, FPL was awarded the ReliabilityOne™ National Reliability Award, presented by PA Consulting.

Additionally, FPL's use of smart devices and other innovative technology to help prevent outages and shorten restoration times when outages occur earned the company the ReliabilityOne™ Award for Outstanding Technology & Innovation and the Outstanding Reliability Performance Award for the Southeast region.

In 2020, FPL will continue to focus on the use of smart grid technology and is installing new automated transformer switches (ATS). These smart devices are replacing standard fuses in transformers with automated, resettable ones. It helps reduce unnecessary maintenance because crews no longer have to go out for a simple fix from a temporary fault, which improves reliability closer to customers' homes and businesses.

Source: FPL Press Release