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| Company type | Subsidiary |
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| Headquarters | , United States |
Area served | United States, Canada, and Spain[1] |
| Products | Electricity |
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| Owner | NextEra Energy, Inc. |
Number of employees | ~5,200 (2017)[1] |
| Website | www |
NextEra Energy Resources,LLC (NEER) is a wholesale electricity supplier based inJuno Beach, Florida. NEER is a subsidiary ofNextEra Energy (NYSE: NEE), aFortune 200 company. Prior to 2009, NextEra Energy Resources was known asFPL Energy.[2]
NextEra Energy Resources is the world's largest operator of wind and solar projects. In addition to wind and solar, NEER owns and operates generating plants powered bynuclear energy,natural gas, and oil. As of December 2017, the combined capacity of NEER's facilities is 19.06gigawatts (GW) across 32 states, 4 Canadian provinces, and 1 province in Spain. NEER also develops and buildsbattery storage projects. As of December 2017, NEER owns and operates approximately 205electrical substations and 1,190 circuit miles ofelectric power transmission lines.[1]
As of December 2017, NextEra Energy Resources has wind facilities located in 21 states in the U.S. and 4 provinces in Canada, primarily located throughoutTexas and the Western and Midwestern regions of the U.S. and Canada.[1]
In April 2011,Google Energy signed apower purchase agreement (PPA) with NextEra Energy Resources for 100.8 megawatts of wind energy from Minco II Wind Energy Center inGrady County andCaddo County, Oklahoma.[3]
In December 2017, NextEra Energy Resources acquired allOklahoma wind power and transmission assets from Clean Line Energy.[4]
In June 2018,AT&T signed a PPA with NextEra Energy Resources for 300 megawatts of wind energy, which was in addition to the PPA signed in February 2018 for 520 megawatts of wind energy from NEER.[5]
As of May 2018, NEER has 113 wind projects in operation producing a net total of 12,863.3 megawatts (MW).[6] Notable wind projects are listed below:
As of December 2017, NextEra Energy Resources has solar facilities located in 16 states in the U.S., 1 province in Canada, and 1 province in Spain.[1]
In December 2010, NextEra Energy Resources purchased four solar projects totaling 40 megawatts inOntario fromFirst Solar.[7]
In February 2018, NextEra Energy Resources filed a lawsuit against theUnited States Department of the Treasury for $127 million. The lawsuit involves the construction of Silver State South Solar Energy Center inClark County, Nevada, which was completed in 2016. The lawsuit claims that "the government has arbitrarily withheld the money it should have paid the company under the Section 1603 grant program to offset the construction costs", and that "the government offered no explanation about why it withheld the money from the company".[8]
In May 2018, the commissioning was held forArkansas' largest universal solar project, Stuttgart Solar Energy Center (81.0 MW) inArkansas County, Arkansas, after construction was completed by NEER in partnership withEntergy Arkansas.[9] Pinal Central Solar Energy Center, the largest universal solar project inArizona, was also opened inPinal County, Arizona (20 MW) along with a 10-megawattlithium-ion battery storage system after construction was completed by NEER in partnership with Salt River Project (SRP).[10]
As of May 2018, NEER has 32 universal solar projects and several small scale private generation solar projects in operation, producing a net total of 2,153.7 megawatts (MW).[6] Notable solar projects are listed below:
As of May 2018, NEER has threenuclear power plants in operation, producing a net total of 2,723.3 megawatts (MW), while the other two NextEra Energy nuclear power plants operate underFlorida Power & Light.[6] NEER is responsible for all nuclear unit operations and the ultimate decommissioning of the nuclear units, and the nuclear sites use both on-sitespent fuel pools anddry cask storage to storespent nuclear fuel generated by the facilities.[1] The NEER nuclear power plants in operation are listed below:
In November 2016, NextEra Energy Resources sold two natural gas plants located inMarcus Hook, Pennsylvania and other assets to Starwood Energy Group. The sale totaled approximately $765 million and included the combined-cycle Marcus Hook Energy Center (790 MW) and the simple-cycle Marcus Hook 50 Energy Center (50 MW).[11]
As of May 2018, NEER has four natural gas plants in operation, all located in the Northeast region of the U.S., producing a net total of 420 megawatts (MW).[6] The natural gas plants in operation are listed below:
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