We had a good turnout of 17 people from 9 companies at the Eastern Utilities Group meeting. The meeting was hosted by Florida Power & Light at their beautiful Juno Beach, FL headquarters.

Discussion topics included:

• an update of the Benchmarking Program by Bob Lambe,
• discussion of the new staffing benchmarking effort,
• a review of FPL Storm Operations support by Bob Simm,
• the main “Hot Topics and Best Practices” discussion and networking.

The group also had the opportunity to tour the corporate office and the FPL Manatee visitor center.