AUG UST
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2023
DEAR MEMBERS, Every day Florida welcomes new residents. According
County – built to supply members in that area with safe,
to the U.S. Census Bureau, between April 2020 and July
affordable, reliable energy.
2022, Florida's population increased to over 22,200,000, which is a 3.3% increase in just over two years. The
Sawgrass will help manage the growing load along Lake
four largest counties served by SECO (Citrus, Lake,
County’s southern area in conjunction with our current
Marion and Sumter) increased their population during
Clermont substation. SECO’s new substation houses the
this timeframe between 5.5% and 11.7%. Lake County’s
latest technology to provide redundant power sources.
growth increased by 6.8% specifically. Sawgrass utilizes two Duke Energy transmission lines To keep pace with the increasing demand for energy to
in a looped configuration, creating redundancy that
power the growing number of residences and businesses
increases reliability for members served from both
(both commercial and industrial), SECO Energy maintains
the Clermont and Sawgrass substations. This design
its massive electric grid infrastructure regularly for our
allows crews to restore service to members served by
existing members. It builds new infrastructure where
both substations through distribution backfeeding. This
needed for new members.
redundancy minimizes the impact and length of outages. It supports a new level of robust demand while helping
In Lake County, SECO completed the design and
to maintain a resilient grid.
construction of a multi-year new substation (named Sawgrass) to meet demand in the County’s increasing
As your local not-for-profit electric cooperative, SECO
population. Much of the population growth has occurred
and its hometown team are committed to reducing
in Clermont, Fruitland Park, Groveland and Minneola.
the number and duration of outages our members experience yearly and keeping pace with a rapidly
The increasing number of residential new construction
expanding population. Our investment in state-of-the-
and commercial and industrial developments underway in
art infrastructure is one vital action taken to improve
southern Lake County will require a substantial increase
member satisfaction.
in electrical service. SECO Energy has responded with its development of the Sawgrass substation, which is
Best regards,
the 49th SECO Energy substation – soon to be 50 with the addition of the new Landstone substation in Sumter Curtis Wynn
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