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Seminole Electric Cooperative, Inc
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Seminole Electric Cooperative, headquartered in Tampa, is your Cooperative's wholesale energy supplier. Seminole Electric is also a not-for-profit Cooperative returning margins to your Cooperative.

Seminole Electric is owned by your Cooperative and nine other electric distribution Cooperatives located from the Georgia border to the Everglades. These distribution Cooperatives provide power to more than 1.6 million individuals and businesses across the the state through nearly 890,000 meters in 46 counties.

Seminole operates power production facilities and negotiates short and long term energy contracts with other power producers and marketers. It also owns and operates transmission facilities that connect Seminole's system to Florida's electrical transmission system.
  • Seminole provides power to more than 890,000 members.
  • Seminole is owned by WREC and nine other distribution cooperatives.
Seminole's Palatka Generating Station
  • Two 650 megawatt, coal-fired generating units.
  • Located approximately 50 miles south of Jacksonville.
  • Powered by coal, purchased primarily from mines in southeastern Illinois and western Kentucky.
Richard J. Midulla Generating Station, a 500 megawatt power station located in Hardee County, about 12 miles northwest of Wauchula, began commercial operation on January 1, 2002. The new station uses the newest technology of gas combined cycle.

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