The City of Miami is a vibrant economic hub and development in its urban core is among the fastest in the nation. The FPL Wynwood Energy Project will use cutting-edge battery technologies to enhance reliability today for thousands of customers and support future growth in the area. With an innovative design and surrounding walls of art, the FPL Wynwood Energy Project will transform a vacant lot adjacent to an FPL substation.
The proposed FPL Wynwood Energy Project is designed:
- To store power from the grid when customer demand for electricity is low; return power to the grid during peak times for electricity - when customers need it most
- On a small footprint (less than a third of an acre) adjacent to an FPL substation, located at the corner of NW 23rd Street and NW 1st Avenue
- To work with FPL’s smart grid technology to help reduce and prevent power outages
- As a 10-megawatt/40-megawatt battery system can discharge up to 10 megawatts of energy per hour for up to four hours
The FPL Wynwood Energy Project will be housed in an eye-catching structure with a decorative façade that complements the sleek and modern buildings under construction in the area. A curator familiar with the community’s vibrant arts culture will manage the installation of murals on the eight-foot wall that surrounds the property.
Expanding our use of battery technologies
FPL has several energy storage projects across South Florida including, Everglades National Park's Flamingo Visitor Center and Key Biscayne’s Crandon Tennis Center. In addition, the company is integrating batteries at some of its solar power plants around the state.
More solar coming to Miami-Dade
FPL plans to install more than one million solar panels in Miami-Dade County. Construction of the FPL Miami-Dade Solar Energy Center is now underway and will begin to serve FPL customers in 2019. Today, FPL operates several solar installations in Miami-Dade, including a solar array that doubles as a research facility at FIU’s College of Engineering and Computing.
A neighborhood on the rise
Miami’s urban core, which includes downtown, Brickell, Edgewater, Midtown Miami and Wynwood, accounted for 40 percent of new office construction in the city since 2010, which is higher than Boston, Chicago, Atlanta, Houston, Washington, D.C., San Francisco, Phoenix, Los Angeles, Dallas-Fort Worth and Philadelphia.
During the same period, construction of new apartments ballooned by 66 percent in Miami’s urban core, far ahead of new construction growth in Chicago, New York City, Los Angeles, Washington, D.C. and six other major cities.
Source: CoStar Group 2018
Project Highlights
Cutting-edge battery technologies to support area’s future growth
Innovative design and art walls will transform vacant lot