BREVARD COUNTY, FLORIDA – If necessity is the mother of invention, then experience is the mother of innovation.
For a century now, Florida Power & Light Company (FPL) has been restoring power to its customers after hurricanes. And, just as importantly, learning from each experience and working to improve its response after every storm.
It was mere hours after the winds of powerful, category-four Hurricane Ian blew over the hotel where Charles Leitner and several other FPL employees were sheltered that he stepped outside to see what remained of Punta Gorda…