Utilities - The Fuel for Growth
Electric Power
JEA is the integrated electric, water, and sewer utility serving the consolidated City of Jacksonville/Duval County and portions of other First Coast counties. As of 2000, the JEA system has a total generating capacity of 2,842 megawatts, of which 379 megawatts (15%) is reserve capacity. Electric rates are among the lowest in the Southeastern U.S. and service reliability is outstanding. Other electric providers in Northeast Florida:
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Water & Sewer
JEA supplies water from the Floridan Aquifer to the majority of the consolidated governmental area of Jacksonville/Duval County and portions of other First Coast counties. JEA also supplies sewer service to the majority of Jacksonville/Duval County by maintaining and operating five large sewage treatment facilities. JEA is currently investing $500 million over five years to improve our sewer infrastructure and to continue to serve our area as an active environmental steward.The Floridan Aquifer, one of the purest and most productive aquifers in the world, produces high-quality water from wells that are typically 1,000 feet deep. The JEA water system has significant excess capacity. Other water/sewer providers in the Northeast Florida include:
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Natural Gas
Natural gas is privately provided by TECO/Peoples Gas for almost the entire state of Florida. Natural gas is either presently available at industrial parks or readily available.
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Telecommunications
Economic development is driven by access to markets, transportation, labor, and communications. The three elements of bandwidth access are capacity, choice, and redundancy. Jacksonville's railroads, which carry the bandwidth, are the key to telecommunications because the freight of the future is data. The old adage of location, location, location is something Jacksonville is proud of when it comes to our telecommunications network.
Most major business districts and employment centers in the Jacksonville metro area are served by a fiber-optic-based diversely routed network infrastructure. This infrastructure consists of SONET fiber optic ring technology connecting customer locations with serving central offices. Additionally, SONET ring architecture is used to connect central offices and multiple interexchange carrier POP locations. Digital central office switches are used in the major business districts and employment center areas in Jacksonville including the two LATA tandem locations. Sufficient fiber infrastructure flexibility is available to provide customized fiber serving network arrangements to meet any customer's specific voice, data, or video needs. Jacksonville's ring infrastructure consists of diversely routed main and protects fiber paths using true route diversity, not a collapsed ring topology.
Telecommunications providers in Jacksonville include:
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