Factbox: Irma knocks out power to near 800,000 customers in Florida

Factbox: Irma knocks out power to near 800,000 customers in Florida

Carlo Allegri

Florida Power & Light (FPL), the biggest power company in Florida, said on its website it had over 752,000 customers without power Sunday morning.

Separately, Keys Energy Services, which serves the Florida Keys, reported 29,000 outages earlier Sunday on its website.

Irma, which is passing over the Florida Keys, was packing maximum sustained winds of 130 miles (215 kilometers) per hour, according to the latest update from the U.S. National Hurricane Center.

FPL is a unit of Florida energy company NextEra Energy Inc.

(Reporting by Scott DiSavino)

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