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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

FPL plans to make the following upgrades throughout 2024 in Miami as part of its ongoing commitment to avoid outages and restore power faster following severe weather.

The secret to a quicker hurricane recovery is hidden in the ground — at least if you ask FPL. The power company is promoting a new program to convince homeowners in older neighborhoods to do away with their overhead powerlines and agree to have them buried in the ground. The company said its research on power outages is clear.

Florida Power and Light workers laid underground utility lines along Taylor Lane Northwest in Port Charlotte on March 27.

Florida Power & Light crews are placing underground power lines in several Jupiter Farms neighborhoods as part of ongoing work to make the energy grid more storm-resistant.

The long, hot summer saw a "perfect storm," a parking pickle and more record-setting real estate sales.

FPL assured Longboat commissioners that undergrounding is still the best option, despite some transformers failing due to Hurricane Idalia flooding.

This year, FPL plans to make a number of upgrades in Punta Gorda as part of an ongoing effort to enhance day-to-day reliability and improve resiliency in the face of severe weather. These investments include moving more power lines underground, strengthening overhead lines and installing more intelligent devices along the energy grid to help

The 2022 hurricane season was a harsh teacher. Not because of the number of storms – it was a fairly average year – but because of the tricky nature of Hurricanes Ian and Nicole, the two storms that hit Florida. As we approach the 2023 storm season, here's what we can learn from Ian and Nicole.

Crews replace overhead neighborhood power lines with underground lines on May 10 in a Fort Myers neighborhood to improve resiliency during hurricanes and severe weather and also enhance reliability during day-to-day conditions. COURTESY PHOTOS In 2023, FPL plans to make a number of upgrades in Fort Myers as part of an ongoing effort to enhance