NextEra Energy Resources
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| Headquarters | Juno Beach, Florida, United States |
| Owner | NextEra Energy Inc. |
| Website | www |
NextEra Energy Resources is a wholesale electricity supplier based in Juno Beach, Florida. It is a subsidiary of NextEra Energy (: NEE), a Fortune 200 company. Prior to 2009, NextEra Energy Resources (NER) was known as FPL Energy.
NER is North America's largest owner and operator of wind and solar electricity generating assets. The company has 85 wind facilities in seventeen US states and three Canadian provinces. NER also co-owns and operates Solar Energy Generating Systems (SEGS), the world's largest solar power generating facility.
In addition to wind and solar, NextEra Energy Resources owns and operates generating plants powered by natural gas, nuclear fuel, and oil. The combined capacity of NER's facilities is 18.9 gigawatts (GW).
NextEra Energy owns or co-owns 13 natural gas-fired power plants in 10 US States. The largest of these plants are the 1,792 MW Forney Energy Center in Forney, Texas, the 1,000 MW Lamar Energy Center in Paris, Texas, and the 668 MW Calhoun Energy Center in Eastaboga, Alabama.
NextEra Energy is currently the largest owner and operator of wind turbines in the US, and second in the world after Iberdrola. As of January 1, 2015 NextEra Energy, through its subsidiaries, currently operates over 100 wind farms across 19 states and three Canadian provinces, with a gross capacity of 11,300 megawatts. It owns and operates the Horse Hollow Wind Energy Center in Taylor County, Texas, the second largest wind farm in the United States. In 2015, NextEra accounted for roughly 35 percent US wind power installed.Google Energy is an investor and customer of NextEra, having invested $38.8 million in two sites in North Dakota, and entered into a purchase agreement for 100 MW at a fixed rate for 20 years.
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