Gulf Power Company

Gulf Power
Subsidiary
Industry Utilities
Headquarters Pensacola, Florida, USA
Key people
Stan Connally (President & CEO) [1]
Number of employees
1,270
Parent Southern Company
Website www.gulfpower.com

Gulf Power Company (GPC) (NYSE: GUI) is a U.S. investor-owned electric utility with all of its common stock owned by Atlanta-based Southern Company. Gulf Power Company is headquartered in Pensacola, Florida,[2] and has a service territory that spans 7,550 square miles (19,600 km2) in 10 counties and 71 towns in northwest Florida. Gulf Power has approximately 428,000 customers in Florida.[3]

Gulf Power Company owns 1,600 miles (2,600 km) of transmission lines and 7,636 miles (12,289 km) of distribution lines (1,748 underground) that stretch from the western Alabama border to the Apalachicola River and from the northern Alabama border to the Gulf of Mexico.[4] Gulf Power serves 394,772 retail customers directly and another 14,128 customers through the wholesale delivery of electricity to one investor-owned electric utility and one municipality.

History

Generating facilities

Fossil fuel power plants

PlantNearest CityUnits Total Capacity
James F. Crist Electric Generating PlantPensacola, Florida4 930,000 kW
Herbert Scholz Electric Generating PlantSneads, Florida2 92,000 kW
Lansing Smith Electric Generating PlantPanama City, Florida4 945,000 kW
Gulf Power also owns a percentage of the following generating units [5]
PlantNearest City Ownership PercentageTotal Capacity
Victor J. Daniel Electric Generating Plant (Plant Daniel) Escatawpa, Mississippi 506,500 kW (50%) 2,000,000 kW
Robert W. Scherer Steam-Electric Generating Plant (Plant Scherer) Juliette, Georgia 210,900 kW (25%) 3,272,000 kW
Commercial generation Pea RidgePea Ridge, Florida15,000 kW

Community

Gulf Power Company is the largest single taxpayer in northwest Florida. The company’s city, county, state and federal taxes totaled $132.4 million for 2007 – amounting to 10.5 cents out of every dollar earned by the company or $311 per customer. In 2007, the company supported local agencies, chambers of commerce, economic development groups and the United Way as well as other charitable organizations with nearly $1.2 million. Gulf Power employees also contributed more than $80,000 to various philanthropies in northwest Florida.[6]

Environment & Conservation

As of 2011, Gulf Power has reduced its overall plant emissions by 85 percent since 1992, while added 135,000 customers over that time period.[6]

See also

List of power stations in Florida

External links

Notes

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