(Reuters) – Over 308,000 Florida homes and businesses were without power on Thursday after Hurricane Nicole crashed into the state’s east coast overnight.
Utilities have already restored service to about half of the roughly 600,000 customers who lost power since the storm hit Wednesday night.
Hurricane Nicole weakened into a tropical storm on Thursday shortly after making landfall on Florida’s east coast, barreling ashore with a brew of heavy downpours and fierce winds.
The utility with the most outages and most customers already restored is Florida Power & Light Co (FPL), the nation’s biggest power utility.
FPL is a unit of Florida energy company NextEra Energy Inc.
Major outages by utility:
Power Company State/Pro Out Now Customers Served
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NextEra – FPL FL 147,200 5,280,000
Duke – Florida FL 95,100 1,766,000
Orlando Utilities Commission FL 19,800 269,500
Clay Electric Co-op FL 17,700 186,800
Jacksonville Electric Authority (JEA) FL 14,200 510,900
Emera – Tampa Electric FL 14,200 800,000
Total Out 308,200
(Reporting by Scott DiSavino; Editing by Barbara Lewis and Josie Kao)
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