Power Flickers

Reducing Power Flickers

Power flickers … momentary outages … brief service interruptions – these are some of the terms used to describe brief power outages lasting less than 60 seconds. Regardless of what you call them, they’re annoying because they can briefly shut down the electronic devices and appliances in your home or business. You want reliable electric service, and it’s our job to provide it.

While we’ve made good progress in reducing power outages – providing customers with more than 99.98 percent service reliability – power flickers are an ongoing challenge for FPL and electric utilities nationwide. That’s why we’ve mounted a major effort – the first of its kind in the nation – to reduce those brief, yet frustrating flickers.

We apologize if you’ve experienced a problem with your electric service due to power flickers. And we want you to know we’re working hard on our commitment to reduce them.