FPL Tests Readiness for Potentially Active 2024 Hurricane Season in Annual Storm Drill; Urges Customers to Begin Planning
FPL Tests Readiness for Potentially Active 2024 Hurricane Season in Annual Storm Drill; Urges Customers to Begin Planning
The latest: Florida Power & Light Company (FPL) is challenging its employees with a simulated Category 4 hurricane during the company's annual storm drill this week. As part of FPL's extensive year-round focus on storm preparation, this week-long drill helps employees prepare to respond when customers need them most.
最新消息：佛羅里達電力和照明公司（FPL）將在本週的年度風暴演習中用模擬的四級颶風挑戰員工。作爲FPL全年廣泛關注風暴準備工作的一部分，本次爲期一週的演習可幫助員工做好準備，在客戶最需要時做出響應。
By the numbers: FPL has invested in a stronger, smarter and more storm-resilient energy grid that benefits customers by improving the speed of restoration and reducing outage times following severe weather.
從數字上看：FPL已投資建設更強大、更智能、更具抗風暴能力的能源電網，通過提高恢復速度和減少惡劣天氣後的停電時間，使客戶受益。
These grid enhancements include:
這些網格增強功能包括：
- Smart Grid – Installing more than 215,000 intelligent devices along the energy grid to detect and prevent outages, and minimize restoration times when outages occur. In recent years, smart-grid technology helped avoid more than 600,000 outages combined during significant hurricane events.
- Undergrounding – Replacing more overhead neighborhood power lines with more reliable underground lines through the Storm Secure Underground Program. These lines perform significantly better during severe weather, up to 12 times better during previous hurricanes.
- Hardening – Strengthening nearly all main power lines serving critical community facilities and services. More than 76% of these lines are now hardened or underground. FPL has also replaced nearly all of its transmission structures with steel or concrete.
- 智能電網 — 在電網沿線安裝超過 215,000 臺智能設備，以檢測和防止停電，並最大限度地縮短停電時的恢復時間。近年來，在重大颶風事件期間，智能電網技術幫助避免了總共超過60萬次停電。
- 地下地下——通過Storm Secure Underground計劃，用更可靠的地下線路取代更多的鄰里高架電力線。這些線路在惡劣天氣下的表現要好得多，在之前的颶風中最多可以提高12倍。
- 強化 — 加強爲關鍵社區設施和服務提供服務的幾乎所有主要電力線。現在，這些線路中有76％以上是經過硬化處理的或地下的。FPL還用鋼或混凝土取代了幾乎所有的傳輸結構。
A word from FPL Vice President of Power Delivery Ed De Varona: "At FPL, we operate under the premise that it is a matter of when – not if – a major storm will strike. That's why we prepare year-round and why we are relentlessly focused on building a resilient grid and drilling on preparation and restoration. Our customers should know that we are prepared for the upcoming hurricane season. But, they should also know that no system is stormproof and that they should share our commitment and prepare their own emergency plans."
FPL電力交付副總裁埃德·德瓦羅納的一句話說：“在FPL，我們的運作前提是大風暴何時來襲，而不是是否會來襲。這就是爲什麼我們全年都在做準備，也是我們堅持不懈地專注於建設彈性電網以及鑽探準備和修復的原因。我們的客戶應該知道我們已經爲即將到來的颶風季節做好了準備。但是，他們還應該知道沒有哪個系統是防風雨的，他們應該分享我們的承諾並制定自己的應急計劃。”
What customers can do: While FPL's year-round preparation and grid enhancements improve restoration times, no energy grid is stormproof. Now is the time for FPL customers to begin thinking about their hurricane preparedness plans while there is not a storm on Florida's doorstep. Customers can visit FPL.com/Storm for helpful tips for their home and/or business.
客戶可以做什麼：儘管FPL的全年準備和電網改善可以縮短恢復時間，但沒有任何能源網是防風雨的。現在是FPL客戶在佛羅里達州家門口沒有風暴的情況下開始考慮他們的颶風防備計劃的時候了。客戶可以參觀 fpl.com/storm 爲他們的家庭和/或企業提供有用的小貼士。
We urge customers to consider some of the following plans:
我們敦促客戶考慮以下一些計劃：
- Create a storm plan for you and your loved ones, especially for those who have medically essential power needs.
- Hire a qualified professional to trim trees growing near power lines to minimize the impact it may have on your home or neighborhood during severe weather.
- Stock up on batteries and flashlights in case you experience a power outage.
- If you have a generator, study the manufacturer's instructions to ensure safe operations.
- Download the FPL mobile app as the most effective resource to stay in touch with us following a storm.
- 爲您和您的親人制定風暴計劃，尤其是那些有醫療基本電力需求的人。
- 聘請合格的專業人員修剪生長在電力線附近的樹木，以最大限度地減少惡劣天氣下對您的房屋或社區的影響。
- 儲備電池和手電筒以防停電。
- 如果您有發電機，請閱讀製造商的說明以確保安全運行。
- 下載FPL移動應用程序，這是暴風雨過後與我們保持聯繫的最有效資源。
About FPL
關於 FPL
As America's largest electric utility, Florida Power & Light Company serves more customers and sells more power than any other utility, providing clean, affordable, reliable electricity to approximately 5.9 million accounts, or more than 12 million people. FPL operates one of the most fuel efficient and cleanest power generation fleets in the U.S. and in 2022 won the ReliabilityOne National Reliability Award for the seventh time in the last eight years. The company was also recognized by Escalent in 2022 as one of the most trusted U.S. electric utilities for the ninth consecutive year. FPL is a subsidiary of Juno Beach, Florida-based NextEra Energy, Inc. (NYSE: NEE), a clean energy company widely recognized for its efforts in sustainability, corporate responsibility, ethics and compliance, and diversity. NextEra Energy is ranked No. 1 in the electric and gas utilities industry in Fortune's 2023 list of "World's Most Admired Companies" and recognized on Fortune's 2021 list of companies that "Change the World." NextEra Energy is also the parent company of NextEra Energy Resources, LLC, which, together with its affiliated entities, is the world's largest generator of renewable energy from the wind and sun and a world leader in battery storage. For more information about NextEra Energy companies, visit these websites: www.NextEraEnergy.com, www.FPL.com, www.NextEraEnergyResources.com.
作爲美國最大的電力公司，佛羅里達電力和照明公司爲更多的客戶提供服務，銷售的電力也比任何其他公用事業公司都多，爲大約590萬個賬戶，即超過1200萬人提供清潔、實惠、可靠的電力。FPL 運營着美國燃油效率最高、最清潔的發電車隊之一，並在 2022 年贏得了 ReliabilityOne 在過去八年中第七次獲得國家可靠性獎。2022年，該公司還連續第九年被埃斯卡倫特評爲美國最值得信賴的電力公司之一。FPL是總部位於佛羅里達州朱諾海灘的Nextera Energy, Inc.（紐約證券交易所代碼：NEE）的子公司，該公司是一家清潔能源公司，因其在可持續發展、企業責任、道德與合規以及多元化方面的努力而廣受認可。在《財富》雜誌2023年 “全球最受尊敬的公司” 名單中，Nextera Energy在電力和燃氣公用事業行業中排名第一，並在《財富》2021年 “改變世界” 的公司名單中獲得認可。Nextera Energy還是Nextera Energy Resources, LLC的母公司，該公司及其附屬實體是世界上最大的風能和太陽可再生能源發電商，也是電池存儲領域的全球領導者。有關Nextera能源公司的更多信息，請訪問以下網站： www.nexteraEnergy.com， www.fpl.com， www.nexteraEnergyResources.com。
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