Town of Baldwin Electric Improvement Project

Start and completion dates are subject to change. 

Project Update - May 1, 2017

JEA has completed the voltage conversion project designed to standardize the electric equipment that serves the Town of Baldwin. Thank you for your patience!

In 1998, JEA became the electric service provider for the Town of Baldwin after Florida Power and Light (FPL) transferred responsibility for providing utilities to the Town of Baldwin and its surrounding areas. As part of this transfer, JEA inherited an electric system that was constructed over 40 years ago and produces a different primary voltage than the rest of JEA’s electric service territory.

Over the past several years, JEA has made upgrades to the electric system including that serves the Town of Baldwin, including the construction of a new electric substation that incorporates the latest technologies for better electric reliability, system protection, system controls and power quality monitoring.   

JEA has completed a voltage conversion project designed to standardize the electric equipment that serves the Town of Baldwin. During this process, JEA crews also inspected and replaced if necessary, each piece of our equipment to make sure it was up to our high electric reliability standards. In the end, this project will result in better reliability and faster restoration times should power outages occur in the future. Over the next few years, JEA will also be installing additional street lights and converting the remainder of the streetlights in the Town of Baldwin over to our new, environmentally friendly, LED lights.

In order to complete this conversion, JEA crews needed to turn off power briefly so our crews could work safely on each individual transformer. Our goal was to minimize outage times during this project by mobilizing as many of our crews and contractors as possible to complete the work over three (3) consecutive days on a Saturday, Sunday and Monday. 

All customers experienced an outage at some point during this three (3) day period. The conversion process followed an orderly sequence of work as each segment had to be 100% converted before moving on to the next.  These outages were necessary to complete the required work and to ensure the safety of our crews.

We greatly appreciate your patience and understanding while we completed this important project. 

Watch our crews at work!