This week, Florida Power and Light completed a series of extended power uprates at its Turkey Point and St. Lucie reactors that will create additional electrical generation equivalent to that of a new power plant.In a release Thursday, FPL said the upgrades added 500 megawatts at the plants' four units. The project involved more than 22 million man hours of work employing an average of 3,500 people daily. During the reactors' first year back online, the uprates are expected to save the utility and its customers more than $100 million in fossil fuel costs.The project has been planned since 2007, according to a report in the Miami Herald, and it cost about $3 billion. Turkey Point unit 4 reconnected to the grid Wednesday, with the work at unit 3 and the two reactors at St. Lucie finished last year.
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