The new facilities will triple FPL’s existing 110MW solar capacity in Florida on a cost-effective basis, according to the company. This means no net cost to customers over the plant’s operating lifetimes.
Several community-based, small-scale solar arrays and commercial-scale solar research installations that FPL is building will add another 3MW of generation capacity.
The three plants and the counties in which they are being built are the FPL Babcock Ranch Solar Energy Center, Charlotte County; the FPL Citrus Solar Energy Center, DeSoto County; and FPL Manatee Solar Energy Center, Manatee County.
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