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- 2021.02.17 JEA Announces New Leadership Team
- 2021.03.11 JEA Receives First Place Safety Award from Florida Municipal Electric Association
- 2021.06.15 JEA Names Theodore B. Phillips Chief Financial Officer
- 2021.07.13 JEA Announces New COO and VP of Financial Services
- 2021.08.17 JEA Builds Out Leadership Team with Hiring of Chief External Affairs Officer
- 2021.09.15 JEA Names New Chief Information Officer, VP of Technical Services
- 2021.09.30 Ricky Erixton, JEA Vice President of Electric Systems, Named to SERC Reliability Board of Directors
- 2021.09.30 Ricardo “Rick” Morales III Appointed to JEA Board of Directors
- 2021.11.03 JEA Receives Statewide Recognition for Programs that Build Community
- 2022.01.06 JEA Names its First Director of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
- 2022.01.07 JEA Reducing Carbon Emissions with Closure of Plant Scherer Coal-fired Unit
- 2022.01.17 Statement on Holiday Road Sewer Overflow
- 2022.01.27 JEA Names Mark Stultz Vice President, Communications
- 2022.02.11 JEA Honored as Outstanding Utility by Florida Urban Forestry Council
- 2022.04.08 Steven Selders Promoted to JEA Vice President, Application Delivery and Enterprise Architecture
- 2022.04.26 JEA Managing Director & CEO Jay Stowe, Appointed to Electricity Subsector Coordinating Council
- 2022.06.01 JEA Partnering with Customers to be Ready for 2022 Hurricane Season
- 2022.06.08 JEA Announces Next Generation of Customer Experience Delivery
- 2022.06.13 JEA Presents Environmental Stewardship Award to Evoqua Water Technologies
- 2022.07.26 JEA to Suspend Electric, Water Disconnections During Peak of Summer Heat
- 2022.08.27 Precautionary Boil Water Advisory Remains in Effect for Sandalwood Area as JEA Continues Testing
- 2022.08.28 JEA Lifts Boil Water Advisory for Sandalwood Area
- 2022.09.26 JEA Prepares for Hurricane Ian, Response Procedures in Place
- 2022.09.27 JEA Prepared to Respond to Hurricane Ian Impacts
- 2022.09.28 JEA Welcomes Mutual Aid Response to Hurricane Ian
- 2022.09.29 JEA Crews Restoring Power Throughout Jacksonville
- 2022.10.03 JEA Names Pedro Melendez Vice President, Planning, Engineering & Construction
- 2022.10.20 JEA Honors Local Agency Partners for Their Work in the Community
- 2022.11.04 JEA Receives Statewide Recognition for Community Work in Northeast Florida
- 2022.11.08 JEA Prepares for Subtropical Storm Nicole
- 2022.11.11 All Storm Restorations Continue Today; JEA to Lift Limited Emergency Operations
- 2022.12.12 JEA Women's, Men's Teams Win Top Honors at Statewide Water Competition
- 2022.12.20 JEA Offers Tips in Advance of Severe Cold Weather
- 2022.12.24 JEA Offers Tips During Severe Cold Weather
- 2023.01.10 JEA Receives Statewide Recognition for Mutual Aid Work
- 2023.03.06 JEA Receives Statewide Recognition for Safety
- 2023.03.07 New JEA HQ Customer Center to Open April 10
- 2023.04.06 JEA Lineworkers Earn Top Honors at International Lineman’s Rodeo
- 2023.04.25 Community Invited to May 25 Public Forum on Northeast Florida’s Energy Future
- 2023.05.01 JEA Receives Recognition for Commitment to Urban Tree Management
- 2023.05.18 JEA's Long-Range Clean Energy Plan Available to Public
- 2023.05.26 JEA Ready for 2023 Hurricane Season, Offers Tips to Help Customers Prepare
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Electric Facilities
JEA owns five power plant sites in Jacksonville, has an ownership interest in a power plant in Georgia, and purchases power from several solar fields and landfill gas facilities. JEA also builds, operates and maintains countless substations needed to
bring you reliable power.
Facility Tours
Did you know? JEA offers free tours designed to educate our customers about how our various plants operate.
Click on one of the links below to learn about each of our energy generating facilities:
- Brandy Branch Generating Station
- Northside Generating Station
- Kennedy Generating Station
- St. Johns River Power Park
- Greenland Energy Center
- Plant Scherer
- Solar Energy
- Nuclear Purchase Agreements
Fuel Diversity
Over four decades ago, JEA made a commitment to produce electricity with a diverse fuel source. Diversity in fuel mix is very important in providing reliable, economical and environmentally-sound electricity.
In the 1970s, JEA produced electricity using just one type of fuel, oil. In 1973, the oil embargo caused the price of oil per barrel to quadruple. For many years, JEA customers benefited from the production of electricity using solid fuel. Natural gas prices were high and solid fuel was economical. A couple of years ago, natural gas prices plummeted, and JEA was able to meet the electric demands of our customers at a low cost. The 2014 Polar Vortex then caused natural gas prices to skyrocket. The market price for fuel fluctuates based on demand.
JEA now has a diverse generation fleet by using solid fuel, natural gas and some solar and biogas. In addition, JEA will have nuclear power through a purchase power agreement by 2021. This allows JEA to produce electricity based on economics. And these savings are passed on to our customers.
Brandy Branch Generating Station

The Brandy Branch Generating Station (BBGS) houses three natural gas combustion turbines and has a heat recovery steam generator to recover excess heat from two of the turbines (called combined-cycle). This allows JEA to produce nearly 50 percent more
electricity with no additional fuel costs and virtually no new emissions. Total site capacity is approximately 640 MW in the summer and 760 MW in the winter.
Learn More About Our Combustion Turbine Facilities
Northside Generating Station

The Northside Generating Station (NGS) uses natural gas, fuel oil, coal and petroleum coke in three large steam units and four small diesel-powered peaking units to produce more than 1300 MW of peak electric capacity. NGS boasts two of the largest Circulating
Fluidized Bed Combustors (CFBs) in the world that are both clean and fuel-diverse, affording JEA the flexibility to utilize the most economic fuel choices while still achieving exceptional emission levels. NGS is also among the cleanest solid fuel
plants in the world. NGS was originally placed into service in 1966, but the oldest unit currently operating (Unit 3) was completed in 1977.
Learn More About Northside Generating Station
Kennedy Generating Station
The Kennedy Generating Station uses natural gas with diesel fuel as backup, in two large combustion turbines. Power for Jacksonville has been produced at the KGS site since 1912. Of course, the units in service today are not nearly that old. The two units
in operation today were installed in 2000 and 2009. Total site capacity today is approximately 300 MW.
Learn More About Our Combustion Turbine Facilities
St. Johns River Power Park

The St. Johns River Power Park (SJRPP) decommissioned in early January 2018. The plant and its employees reliably served Jacksonville for nearly 30 years, however homes and businesses are now more energy efficient and customers are using less electricity.
By closing the plant, JEA will increase its asset utilization and save millions of dollars every year. That money will pay down debt and be directed toward capital improvement projects to benefit all customers. The decommissioning will also keep rates
stable longer. JEA will keep 100 of the nearly 2000 acres around the power park for a possible future natural gas plant. The rest of the property, including 30 acres on Blount Island used to off-load coal, will be sold. JEA decreased its carbon footprint
by 30 percent in closing the plant and taking down the two large cooling towers.
Learn More About St. Johns River Power Park
Greenland Energy Center

Greenland Energy Center began operation in 2011. Located in the Florida 9A/9B connection corridor area, it is JEA’s first new generation site south and east of the St. Johns River in more than 50 years. It will assist in meeting our customers’ future
electricity needs and significantly improve electric reliability during peak load periods. Like KGS, the GEC facility uses natural gas in two large combustion turbines to generate 300 MW. The clean-burning natural gas turbines provide electricity
with a low air emission output, and are also capable of using ultra-low sulfur diesel as a backup fuel. In the future, conversion to a combined-cycle unit will allow for increased output production and improved efficiency by using heat already produced
during the process.
Learn More About Our Combustion Turbine Facilities
Plant Scherer

Plant Scherer, located near Macon, Georgia, is operated by the Georgia Power Company. Unit 4, one of the four steam units located at the site, is partially owned by JEA. Unit 4 uses coal to produce JEA's 200 MW portion of electricity output, which is delivered to Jacksonville over large, high-voltage electric transmission lines.
Solar

Today’s energy landscape is changing, and JEA is leading the way. We’ve been a pioneer in bringing solar energy to Jacksonville since the 1990s. JEA is embarking on a major expansion that will increase our current solar energy offerings by 350 percent.
Through the creation of five new local solar farms, JEA will soon provide up to 300 MW of solar power – making Jacksonville one of the leading solar cities in the nation.
Learn More About Our Solar Farms
Nuclear Purchase Agreements

Adding power from nuclear sources to our portfolio is part of a strategy to make the utility less dependent on fossil fuels. We plan to purchase 200 Megawatts (MW) of power from Municipal Electric Authority of Georgia (MEAG) from a new nuclear facility to be constructed at the existing Plant Vogtle, and slated to be operational by 2021. We will not own the facility, but plan to buy power from the Waynesboro, Georgia plant for 20 years.
In 2011, we reserved the option to acquire partial ownership of two new nuclear units to be constructed at an existing plant owned by Duke Energy located in Cherokee County, South Carolina. If we exercise the option, it would bring enough electricity to power about 175,000 homes in our community in typical conditions.
Nuclear power is an alternative that will lower our overall carbon footprint. Nuclear energy provides almost 20 percent of the nation’s electricity and is the number one source of emission-free electricity.
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Electric Safety
We take electric safety seriously and we want you to, as well. We hope the information here will help you enjoy the benefits of reliable electricity safely both inside and outside the home.
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CEMI-4 & CEMI-5 - Electric Reliability Upgrades
CEMI-4 is a new metric that stands for Customers Experiencing More Than Four Outages of one minute or more in the past year. Similar to the CEMI-5 metric that has been utilized by JEA since 2014, the new CEMI-4 metric has helped us improve on our already unbeatable performance of low extended outage frequency and duration rates.