Is Progress Energy Florida building a new nuclear plant in Levy County?
Progress Energy Florida has not yet made a final decision on whether to build new nuclear units in Levy County. In December 2006, the company selected a site in southern Levy County as the preferred location for potential nuclear expansion in Florida. The Levy County site is about 3,100 acres, located about seven miles inland from the Gulf of Mexico and eight miles north of the company’s Crystal River Energy Complex in Citrus County. The proposed site is going through detailed assessments, including environmental and weather studies. If the decision is made to move forward with building the two units, they could be online as early as 2016 to 2017.
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