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Gulf Power To Be Sold
I ran across this article today:

www.nwfdailynews.com/news/20180521/gulf-power-to-be-sold-to-florida-power-amp-light-parent-company

It appears that Gulf Power is going to be merged into Nextera Energy, the parent company of Florida Power & Light, in 2019.

This will be quite an interesting development. Gulf Power, a longtime division of Southern Co., currently uses Southern Co.'s standard hardware. But if the pending sale of the company goes through, I wonder if some changes to Gulf Power's construction style will go with it?

Florida Power & Light prefers to use post insulators bolted to the pole, rather than 25 kV bowls on fiberglass toothpick brackets (Gulf Power's spec). Will that style of construction make a return to Gulf Power's service area?

3 comments

David Dahle said:

Wonder if we are heading into another era of power company mergers? The failed attempt to merge NSP with Wisconsin Power & Light (Primergy) pretty much cooled off the series of mergers of the 1990s.
5 years ago

Peggy C said:

Before you know it, Duke Energy will own the whole lot !
5 years ago

David Dahle said:

And now I just learned Westar Energy in Kansas and Kansas City Power & Light in Missouri have received approval to merge to form Evergy.

Makes me wonder if MDU and Otter Tail will ever revisit the merger they considered 50 years ago.
5 years ago
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