Florida-based power utility company Florida Power & Light Company announced last week that it was beginning construction on 10 new solar projects, each of which will have a capacity of 74.5 megawatts (MW), thus bringing 745 MW of new solar capacity online beginning 2020.
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Florida Power & Light plans to install the world’s largest energy storage battery. It says it will be in operation before the end of 2021.
Florida Power & Light has embarked on an ambitious program that will install 30 million solar panels by 2030, making it one of the largest renewable energy providers in the world.
Rich Blair of Venice, Florida signed up for a Tesla rooftop solar and Powerwall system a year ago. Since then, 6 of his neighbors have also gotten rooftop solar systems from Tesla. Blair says after he went to his local Tesla store, the process was simple and seamless.
Babcock Ranch in southwest Florida has been designed from the ground up to be America’s first 100% sustainable city powered by solar energy. It features electric shuttles, 50 miles of walking trails and a farm to table program for residents.
If you work to secure Americans’ rights to solar energy or to accelerate the deployment of inexpensive renewable energy, you understand that not everyone is in favor. In particular, incumbent electric utilities tend to oppose competition in their (often monopoly) share of the electricity market.
The Florida Solar Energy Center is Florida’s independent energy research institute and part of the University of Central Florida. We are a state energy research laboratory and I’d argue that our efforts have been unparalleled in experimentation and measurement of energy efficiency and renewable energy technologies applied to housing in Florida. Homes are key to the energy picture in Florida since more than half of the total state electricity consumption is used in the residential sector: 118,453 GWh in 8,786,683 households in 2016.
President Trump’s Clean Power Plan “rollback” looks pretty shaky when you consider the ambitious solar plans of one of the biggest utilities in the US.
CleanTechnica has written a series of articles about the deceptive wording on Florida’s Amendment 1, which is meant to slow the Sunshine State’s rooftop solar growth and even penalize it. A new press release from the US Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) suggests that the big utilities are playing hardball now to keep up the deception.
