Florida Power & Light to Company (FPL) announced plans on Monday to add some 225 MW of PV to its power mix by the end of 2016, tripling its existing solar capacity of 110 MW. The company said it planned to install more than 1 million solar panels at three additional solar power plants as part of its efforts to advance affordable clean energy in Florida. Each of the new plants will have a capacity of approximately 74 MW, resulting in 222 MW. FPL is also installing about 3 MW of community-based solar installations and other small-scale arrays, bringing the total new solar capacity to 225 MW. FPL would begin construction on the plants later this year and complete them by the end of 2016. FPL said it had identified three sites with "built-in advantages," such as the existence of sufficient transmission and substation infrastructure, which reduce the overall cost of building new solar plants. In the coming months, FPL intends to present detailed plans to the local communities identified as the most likely locations for new solar plants. The anticipated plants and sites include FPL Citrus Solar Energy Center in DeSoto County, near Florida's first large-scale solar plant, which FPL commissioned in 2009; FPL Babcock Ranch Solar Energy Center in Charlotte County; and FPL Manatee Solar Energy Center ...Den vollständigen Artikel lesen ...