In the news release, NextEra Energy completes acquisition of
Florida City Gas from Southern Company, issued 30-Jul-2018 by NextEra Energy, Inc. over PR
Newswire, the dateline date should read "July 30, 2018" rather than
"July 29, 2018" as incorrectly transmitted by PR Newswire. NextEra
Energy's news release provided to PR Newswire was correctly dated
July 30, 2018. The complete,
corrected release follows:
NextEra Energy completes acquisition of Florida City Gas from
Southern Company
JUNO BEACH, Fla., July 30, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- NextEra
Energy, Inc. (NYSE: NEE) today announced it has completed its
previously announced acquisition of Florida City Gas from Southern
Company (NYSE: SO).
"We are pleased to complete this transaction and welcome the
Florida City Gas employees to the NextEra Energy family," said
Jim Robo, chairman and chief
executive officer of NextEra Energy. "Through our long-term
strategy of enhancing productivity, expanding clean energy and
making smart infrastructure investments, we will be able to extend
our best-in-class value proposition of affordability, reliability
and customer service to Florida City Gas customers."
Florida City Gas serves approximately 110,000 residential and
commercial natural-gas customers in Florida's Miami-Dade, Brevard, St.
Lucie and Indian River
counties with 3,700 miles of natural gas pipelines.
NextEra Energy, Inc.
NextEra Energy, Inc. (NYSE: NEE)
is a leading clean energy company with consolidated revenues of
approximately $17.2 billion, operates
approximately 46,790 megawatts of net generating capacity and
employs approximately 14,000 people in 33 states and Canada as of year-end 2017. Headquartered in
Juno Beach, Florida, NextEra
Energy's principal subsidiaries are Florida
Power & Light Company, which serves approximately 5
million customer accounts in Florida and is one of the largest
rate-regulated electric utilities in the
United States, and NextEra Energy Resources, LLC, which,
together with its affiliated entities, is the world's largest
generator of renewable energy from the wind and sun. Through its
subsidiaries, NextEra Energy generates clean, emissions-free
electricity from eight commercial nuclear power units in
Florida, New Hampshire, Iowa and Wisconsin. A Fortune 200 company and included
in the S&P 100 index, NextEra Energy has been recognized often
by third parties for its efforts in sustainability, corporate
responsibility, ethics and compliance, and diversity, and has been
ranked No. 1 in the electric and gas utilities industry in
Fortune's 2018 list of "World's Most Admired Companies." For more
information about NextEra Energy companies, visit these websites:
www.NextEraEnergy.com, www.FPL.com,
www.NextEraEnergyResources.com
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