FPL begins work on largest U.S. photovoltaic facility
March 16, 2009 0 Comments
2/26/2009 7:59:05 PM GMT -ARCADIA, FLORIDA
Florida Power&Light Co. (FPL) has begun groundbreaking on the DeSoto Next Generation Solar Energy Center. The 25-MW photovoltaic solar facility will bring commercial scale photovoltaic power to Florida.The plant will be the largest photovoltaic solar facility in the United States when it is complete at the end of 2009. The DeSoto Next Generation Solar Energy Center will use 90,000 photovoltaic panels on 180 acres of land and provide enough electricity to power more than 3,000 homes, nearly 20 percent of the population in DeSoto County.
The DeSoto Next Generation Solar Energy Center will use SunPower panels and SunPower Tracker technology. The Tracker automatically follows the sun's movement throughout the day, increasing sunlight capture by up to 25 percent over fixed systems.
The DeSoto Next Generation Solar Energy Center is one of three new solar facilities FPL is building in Florida, which will total 110 MW of renewable solar energy capacity.FPL broke ground in December 2008 on the Martin Next Generation Solar Energy Center, which will be the world's first hybrid solar energy plant and the second largest solar thermal plant in the nation. It will generate 75-MW of solar energy once it is fully operational in 2010.
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Florida Power&Light Co. (FPL) has begun groundbreaking on the DeSoto Next Generation Solar Energy Center. The 25-MW photovoltaic solar facility will bring commercial scale photovoltaic power to Florida.The plant will be the largest photovoltaic solar facility in the United States when it is complete at the end of 2009. The DeSoto Next Generation Solar Energy Center will use 90,000 photovoltaic panels on 180 acres of land and provide enough electricity to power more than 3,000 homes, nearly 20 percent of the population in DeSoto County.
The DeSoto Next Generation Solar Energy Center will use SunPower panels and SunPower Tracker technology. The Tracker automatically follows the sun's movement throughout the day, increasing sunlight capture by up to 25 percent over fixed systems.
The DeSoto Next Generation Solar Energy Center is one of three new solar facilities FPL is building in Florida, which will total 110 MW of renewable solar energy capacity.FPL broke ground in December 2008 on the Martin Next Generation Solar Energy Center, which will be the world's first hybrid solar energy plant and the second largest solar thermal plant in the nation. It will generate 75-MW of solar energy once it is fully operational in 2010.
FPL will build a third facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, which will add 10 MW to the state's photovoltaic solar capacity....(www.energycurrent.com - MORE)
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