FP&L breaks ground on solar facility - South Florida Business Journal:

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The 25-megawatt plant will be the largest photovoltaic solad facility in the nation when it is complete at the end of this The center willuse 90,000 photovoltaic panelas on 180 acres, and provide enouggh electricity to power more than 3,000 homes, whicb is nearly 20 percent of the populatiomn in DeSoto County, according to Juno Beach-basexd FP&L. “Solar power will help promotre anew clean-energy economy in Florida, reduce our dependencwe on fossil fuels, and address globalp climate change through the production of emissions-free energy,” Presiden and Chief Operating Officer Jim Robo Photovoltaic panels convert sunlight directlu into electricity, which can be fed onto the electrica l grid without the need of a turbiner generator.
“The facility will provide significant economif benefits toDeSoto County, creatingg more than 200 jobs during peak constructioh and providing more than $2 million in annual tax revenues by the end of 2010 to help boosr the local economy,” FP&L said in a media release. This is one of threew new solarfacilities FP&L is building in Florida. In it broke ground on the , which will be the world’s first hybrid solar energy plant andthe second-largestg solar thermal plant in the nation.
The company will buildd a third facilityat NASA’sx Kennedy Space Center, which will add 10 megawatta to the state’s photovoltaic solar FP&L, a subsidiary of FPL Groul (NYSE: FPL), provides power for nearlyu 30 counties including Manatee and Sarasota. Shares of parenf company FPL Group were down 98 centesto $46.44 in afternoon The 52-week high was $68.98 on May 2. The 52-weei low was $33.81 on Oct. 10.