Population Growth in the Sunshine State

Healthy population growth in the Sunshine State and increased customer electric use make FPL one of the largest and fastest-growing electric utilities in the nation. FPL added its four millionth customer in 2002, and its annual customer growth rate continues to be higher than that of most other utilities. Retail customer energy use also increased by 3.5% in 2002. Both of these drivers contributed to record energy sales of 98.6 billion kilowatt-hours.