PowerTown is a major player in upgrading and retrofitting Florida’s grid, as well as making it storm resilient.
Despite ever-changing technology and grid specifications, PowerTown’s retrofit crews are at the forefront, putting better, more modern equipment on neighborhood poles. In FPL’s service area, PowerTown is upgrading and fortifying the grid by…
- Replacing weak and aging poles
- Decreasing the distribution line span for one pole to the next, strengthening lines against the weather
- Replacing aging equipment with the newest technology
- Upgrading and replacing old insulation
- Providing “avian mitigation” – using raptor guards to protect Florida’s unique populations of birds of prey such as eagles, hawks and ospreys
- Making the grid more reliable