America’s (newest) largest solar plant set to go live in Florida

October 25th, 2009 | Category: Gadget Corner

whether all goes well, that 25-megawatt solar plant in Florida won’t be America’s largest for lengthy, but it’s not like we’d pass up the opportunity to let that $150 million facility bask in its own glory (and the sun, whether we’re being thorough) while it can. The Desoto facility is just one of three solar projects that Florida capability & Light is spearheading, and judging by the proximity of that one (in Arcadia) to the 75-megawatt facility planned for nearby Charlotte County, we’d surmise that the two are linked in some profile or fashion. President Obama is expected to show up rocking a set of Kanye glasses underneath a

welder’s mask when the plant is fired up that Tuesday, and while it’ll only supply capability to “a fraction” of FP&L’s customer base, it’ll still generate around twice as much energy as the second-largest photovoltaic facility in the US of A.

[Thanks, Yossi]

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