Gulf Power

Gulf Power Company (GPC) is a Florida corporation that has had a continuous existence since 1925, with all of its common stock owned by Atlanta based Southern Company. GPC is headquartered in Pensacola, Florida, and has a service territory that spans 7,550 square miles, through 10 counties and 71 towns in northwest Florida.

GPC owns 1,600 miles of transmission lines and 7,636 miles of distribution lines (1,748 underground) that stretch from the western Alabama border to the Apalachicola River and from the northern Alabama border to the Gulf of Mexico. GPC serves 394,772 retail customers directly and another 14,128 customers through the wholesale delivery of electricity to one investor-owned electric utility and one municipality.

Proposed Plants
GPC is purchasing land in North Escambia, FL, for a power generation site, possibly a nuclear plant. The electric utility has spent over $2.1 million to date to purchase about 550 acres in the Cox and Roach Road areas and another 55 acres nearby along the Escambia River. GPC has said they are looking to build another facility but have not finalized what it will be, and did not rule out a nuclear plant.

Contact details
Gulf Power One Energy Place Pensacola, FL 32520 Phone: (800) 225-5797 Website: http://www.GulfPower.com

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