Nov 10 (Reuters) - Over 308,000 Florida homes and businesses were without power on
Thursday after Hurricane Nicole crashed into the state's east coast overnight.
    Utilities have already restored service to about half of the roughly 600,000 customers who
lost power since the storm hit Wednesday night.
    Hurricane Nicole weakened into a tropical storm on Thursday shortly after making landfall on
Florida's east coast, barreling ashore with a brew of heavy downpours and fierce winds.
    The utility with the most outages and most customers already restored is Florida Power &
Light Co (FPL), the nation's biggest power utility.
    FPL is a unit of Florida energy company NextEra Energy Inc.
    Major outages by utility:
 Power Company                           State/Pro    Out Now         Customers Served 
                                           vince                  
 NextEra - FPL                              FL           147,200                 5,280,000 
 Duke - Florida                             FL            95,100                 1,766,000 
 Orlando Utilities Commission               FL            19,800                   269,500 
 Clay Electric Co-op                        FL            17,700                   186,800 
 Jacksonville Electric Authority (JEA)      FL            14,200                   510,900 
 Emera - Tampa Electric                     FL            14,200                   800,000 
                                         Total Out       308,200              
    
 (Reporting by Scott DiSavino; Editing by Barbara Lewis and Josie Kao)