LAKE MARY, Fla., July 5, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Sabal Trail
Transmission, LLC (Sabal Trail), a joint venture of Spectra Energy Partners, LP (NYSE: SEP), NextEra Energy, Inc., and Duke
Energy, announced today that on July 3, 2017, it placed into commercial service its pipeline system
and facilities from Alexander City, Alabama, to the Central Florida Hub in Kissimmee, Florida.
"Sabal Trail has successfully navigated a rigorous environmental permitting process over the past four years while working
with landowners and key stakeholders to construct this new pipeline system. With the completion of this project, Florida Power & Light and Duke Energy will realize needed firm natural gas transportation services to meet
their power generation requirements. We are pleased to reach this critical milestone and serve our customers in the Southeast
U.S.," said Bill Yardley, President and Chairman of the Board of Spectra Energy Partners.
Sabal Trail will provide 400,000 dekatherms per day of firm transportation to Florida Power
& Light in time for them to meet their peak cooling season. Additionally, Duke Energy Florida will accept 300,000
dekatherms of firm delivery daily once its Citrus County combined-cycle natural gas plant is
ready to receive natural gas. The 515-mile pipeline will have the capacity to deliver approximately 1.1 billion cubic feet of
natural gas per day to the Southeast U.S. once approved future compression expansions occur.
For more information on Sabal Trail, visit www.sabaltrail.com.
Spectra Energy Partners
Spectra Energy Partners, LP (NYSE: SEP), an Enbridge Inc. company, is a Houston-based
master limited partnership. SEP is one of the largest pipeline MLPs in the United States and
connects growing supply areas to high-demand markets for natural gas and crude oil. These assets include more than 15,000 miles
of transmission pipelines, approximately 170 billion cubic feet of natural gas storage, and approximately 5.6 million barrels of
crude oil storage.
NextEra Energy
NextEra Energy, Inc. (NYSE: NEE) is a leading clean energy company with consolidated revenues of approximately
$16.2 billion, approximately 45,900 megawatts of generating capacity, which includes megawatts
associated with noncontrolling interests related to NextEra Energy Partners, LP (NYSE: NEP), and approximately 14,700 employees
in 30 states and Canada as of year-end 2016. Headquartered in Juno
Beach, Fla., NextEra Energy's principal subsidiaries are Florida Power & Light Company,
which serves approximately 4.9 million customer accounts in Florida and is one of the largest
rate-regulated electric utilities in the United States, and NextEra Energy Resources, LLC,
which, together with its affiliated entities, is the world's largest generator of renewable energy from the wind and sun. Through
its subsidiaries, NextEra Energy generates clean, emissions-free electricity from eight commercial nuclear power units in
Florida, New Hampshire, Iowa
and Wisconsin. A Fortune 200 company and included in the S&P 100 index, NextEra Energy has
been recognized often by third parties for its efforts in sustainability, corporate responsibility, ethics and compliance, and
diversity, and has been ranked No. 1 in the electric and gas utilities industry in Fortune's 2017 list of "World's Most Admired
Companies." For more information about NextEra Energy companies, visit these websites: www.NextEraEnergy.com, www.FPL.com, www.NextEraEnergyResources.com.
Duke Energy
Headquartered in Charlotte, N.C., Duke Energy is one of the largest energy holding
companies in the United States. Its Electric Utilities and Infrastructure business unit serves
approximately 7.5 million customers located in six states in the Southeast and Midwest. The company's Gas Utilities and
Infrastructure business unit distributes natural gas to approximately 1.6 million customers in the Carolinas, Ohio, Kentucky and Tennessee. Its
Commercial Renewables business unit operates a growing renewable energy portfolio across the United
States.
Duke Energy is a Fortune 125 company traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol DUK. More information about the
company is available at duke-energy.com.
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SOURCE Spectra Energy Partners, LP