Gulf Power’s Resiliency Plan for Northwest Florida Panhandle
Gulf Power’s Ten Year Power Plant Site Plan 2020 – 2029 states: NextEra Energy’s plan is to integrate Florida Power and Light (FPL) and Gulf Power into a single electric operating system effective on January 1, 2022 after the completion of a new 161 kV transmission line (the North Florida Resiliency Connection line) that will enhance the electrical connection between the two systems. This enhanced connection will benefit customers in both systems by better enabling the siting of clean, reliable, low cost generation, and the transmission of energy from those facilities, to all customers.
Mr. Rouillier discussed the following topics:
- Improve (storm harden) feeders to hospitals, utilities, hotels
- Install underground power where economically and practically feasible. Underground power expense is at least 6 times the cost of overhead power lines.
- Drones are doing a very good job of finding potential failures or marginal operation on transmission lines
- Increase strength of transmission lines by installing concrete poles which are 3 times stronger than usual Grade C wooden pole.
- Automatic Feeder Switches (AFS) and Automatic Lateral Switches (ALS) are improving reliability and response to faults on the transmission line. The smart grid will incorporate 130 AFS and 2080 ALS in 2021. The ALS does a fault analysis to allow the fault to clear.
- In 2021 they have improved 74 miles of distribution lines by replacing 2240 existing wooden poles with concrete poles.
Discussion and Q&A followed.
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- Date: 15 Nov 2021
- Time: 11:30 PM UTC to 02:00 AM UTC
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- PENSACOLA, Florida
- United States
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Jeff Rouillier
Gulf Power’s Resiliency Plan for Northwest Florida Panhandle
Biography:
Jeff Rouillier is Power Delivery’s Hardening Manager for Gulf Power, where he is leading the company's storm hardening initiatives for distribution while also managing the centralized engineering services team.
In his prior role, Jeff served as the centralized engineering services supervisor at the corporate office, where he provided leadership responsibility for distribution planning, reliability and centralized engineering services. During the transition to NextEra Energy, Jeff served as one of the power delivery team’s liaisons.
Jeff began his career with Georgia Power as an EIT distribution engineer in 2000 and transferred to Gulf Power in 2006 as a senior engineer in the special projects team. In 2012, Jeff became the engineering supervisor of Gulf Power’s Central District, then in 2015, transferred to the Western District as the district construction supervisor. Jeff has a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from the University of Florida. He has graduated from leadership programs at Georgia Power, Gulf Power and Leadership Okaloosa. Jeff is very active in his community and serves on the boards at Pensacola Mess Hall and Gulf Breeze Area Chamber of Commerce.
Address:Pensacola, Florida, United States