As the 2025 Atlantic hurricane season begins, Duke Energy Florida is accelerating its investment in grid resilience and storm preparedness. Through advanced grid-hardening strategies, undergrounding projects, and the deployment of self-healing technology, the utility aims to reduce outages and speed restoration for its more than 2 million customers across the state
-
Duke Energy Florida is accelerating grid modernization through storm-hardened infrastructure, undergrounding, and self-healing technologies to reduce outages and speed recovery during hurricanes.
-
Major upgrades, including concrete transmission poles, fortified substations, and automated rerouting systems, have significantly reduced outage times, resulting in a 27 percent improvement in reliability since 2018.
-
Duke’s investments demonstrate how the private sector can lead on resilience, but expanding this progress nationwide will require permitting reform to accelerate transmission development and reduce barriers to further innovation.
Read the piece in E+E Leader here.
The views and opinions expressed are those of the author’s and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of C3.