Florida Power and Light announces they will operate two solar power plants.
SunPower a California based energy company has been selected by Florida Power and Light to build Florida’s first two solar power facilities.
The first solar power facility will be built in DeSoto County and the second facility will be built at the Kennedy Space Center.
The power plant in DeSoto County is projected to be completed in 2009 and the Kennedy Space Center in 2010.
SunPower stated that the new solar power facility in DeSoto will use the latest technology. The DeSoto facility will incorporate SunPower’s Tracker System where the solar panels tilt and follow the sun as it moves through the sky.
SunPower Vice President Julie Blunden states that the solar power facility will be cost competitive with gas powered facilities and that the renewable fuel source will make a more attractive alternative than fossil fuel.
Florida Power and Light announced that they will invest about $680 million in the solar projects.
Source of the information www.MiamiHerald.Com, July 11, 2008
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