Energy and land conversion · operation or companytop ten landowner
Florida Power & Light
the largest single driver of land conversion to energy
- Founded
- 1925
- Evidence class
- publicly verified operating
- Acres (module, 2025 roll)
- 30,115
- Place
- Juno Beach; plants across DeSoto, Okeechobee and Hendry counties
- District
- Outside the Heartland
- Status as of 12 September 2026
- Operating; 15 solar centers and a 1,720 megawatt gas plant across three Heartland counties, with 18 more centers announced in the region in the 2026 plan.
- Connections
- 46 edges, 46 distinct neighbours · betweenness 0.331 (rank 1 of 243) · location and lineage only 0.043 (rank 13) · outside share 0.07
- Confidence
- High · sources: [FPLP] [TYSP] [MOD] [SECNEE] (register)
The NextEra Energy subsidiary, created 28 December 1925, serves about 12 million people and projects about 12,293 megawatts of new solar statewide from 2026 through 2035 in its Ten Year Site Plan [FPLP][TYSP]. The module's owner table carries FPL at 30,115 acres inside the region [MOD].
Connections
Location and lineage
- unit or member ofNextEra Energywholly owned subsidiary of the Juno Beach holding companyto present
- holdsVandolah power plant purchaseFERC approves the purchase in December 2025; service for FPL customers from 1 June 2027 per the planannounced; from 2027
- foundedDeSoto Next Generation Solar Energy Centerthe 25 megawatt pilot on 361 acres at Arcadia, dedicated 27 October 20092009
- foundedCitrus Solar Energy Centerin service December 20162016
- foundedWildflower Solar Energy Centerin service January 20182018
- foundedHammock Solar Energy Centerin service March 20182018
- foundedOkeechobee Clean Energy Centerthe 1,720 megawatt combined cycle plant, in service March 20192019
- foundedCattle Ranch Solar Energy Centerin service March 20202020
- foundedOkeechobee Solar Energy Centerin service May 20202020
- foundedLakeside Solar Energy Centerin service December 20202020
- foundedBlue Heron Solar Energy Centerin service March 20202020
- foundedRodeo Solar Energy Centerin service May 20212021
- foundedFort Drum Solar Energy Centerin service August 20212021
- foundedGhost Orchid Solar Energy Centerin service January 20222022
- foundedSawgrass Solar Energy Centerin service January 2022 on a 605 acre property2022
- foundedCavendish Solar Energy Centerin service January 20232023
- foundedPrairie Creek Solar Energy Centerin service January 20242024
- foundedHawthorne Creek Solar Energy Centerin service March 20242024
- foundedHoneybell Solar Energy Centerin service November 20242024
- foundedBeautyberry Solar Energy Centerin service January 20242024
- foundedCaloosahatchee Solar Energy Centerin service January 20242024
- foundedWoodyard Solar Energy Centerin service March 20242024
- foundedHendry Isles Solar Energy Centerin service November 20242024
- foundedHog Bay Solar Energy Centerin service January 20252025
- foundedSpeckled Perch Solar Energy Centerin service January 20252025
- foundedBig Water Solar Energy Centerin service January 20252025
- foundedBlanketflower Solar Energy Centerpreferred site in the 2026 planannounced 2026
- foundedDove Solar Energy Centerpreferred site in the 2026 planannounced 2026
- foundedLadybug Solar Energy Centerpreferred site in the 2026 planannounced 2026
- foundedLeafcutter Solar Energy Centerpreferred site in the 2026 planannounced 2026
- foundedLimpkin Solar Energy Centerpreferred site in the 2026 planannounced 2026
- foundedJoshua Creek Solar Energy Centerpreferred site in the 2026 planannounced 2026
- foundedSand Gully Solar Energy Centerpreferred site in the 2026 planannounced 2026
- foundedShell Creek Solar Energy Centerpreferred site in the 2026 planannounced 2026
- foundedGrapefruit Solar Energy Centerpreferred site in the 2026 planannounced 2026
- foundedLaBelle Solar Energy Centerpreferred site in the 2026 planannounced 2026
- foundedMango Solar Energy Centerpreferred site in the 2026 planannounced 2026
- foundedRedroot Solar Energy Centerpreferred site in the 2026 planannounced 2026
- foundedWaxweed Solar Energy Centerpreferred site in the 2026 planannounced 2026
- foundedCocoplum Solar Energy Centerpreferred site in the 2026 planannounced 2026
- foundedHendry Solar Energy Centerpreferred site in the 2026 planannounced 2026
- foundedTangelo Solar Energy Centerpreferred site in the 2026 planannounced 2026
- foundedCatfish Solar Energy Centerpreferred site in the 2026 planannounced 2026
- foundedCaladium Solar Energy Centerpreferred site in the 2026 planannounced 2026
- grew intoTurner Foodsthe utility's citrus subsidiaryto 1998
- builtFPL 2026 Ten Year Site Planfiles the plan with the Public Service Commission in April 20262026