- Suwannee County is now dwelling to a brand new photo voltaic panel website bisected by Interstate 10.
- The website will add almost 75 megawatts of power to the Florida energy grid.
- Read the story under to study why town of Falmouth was chosen for the positioning and the place photo voltaic power ranks within the make-up of Florida’s power sources.
BROADCAST TRANSCRIPT:
More than 220,000 photo voltaic panels at the moment are on-line in Suwannee County. You might discover them whereas driving on I-10. First I Know Meteorologist Riley Winch is right here to let you know the way the solar is powering our neighborhoods.
Drive by way of Suwannee County on Interstate 10, and you may see plenty of fields.
A area in a small Falmouth neighborhood is empowering the group round it.
“It’s superb that I-10 truly bisects it!”
Audrey Stasko is a spokeswoman for Duke Energy Florida, the power supplier that launched the positioning.
The photo voltaic panels right here encompass 400!
It generates almost 75 megawatts of power.
That’s sufficient to energy as much as 23,000 regular-sized properties every year.
With a robust solar angle and greater than 225 sunny or partly cloudy days every year, North Florida is a superb place for photo voltaic panels. And not simply what comes from above.
“What is the land? How a lot does it value to purchase land or lease land?”
Because there’s a sturdy basis supporting all these panels.
And these photo voltaic panels fill plenty of land.
While strolling by way of the photo voltaic website, the rows of about 60 panels every appear to go on perpetually. And beneath, there may be plenty of grass and crops which are dwelling to animals like snakes and bees.
Stasko informed me whereas 80% of Duke’s power comes from Natural Gas.
I checked the Statista web site.
Their analysis exhibits that Florida as an entire additionally will get most of its energy from pure gasoline.
Behind that’s nuclear power at 11.5 %, adopted by coal at 7.5 %.
Solar will cowl 3.7 % by 2021.
But extra photo voltaic power is predicted to be harvested sooner or later.
The Falmouth website performs a task in that mission.
“We’ve been in a position to put a lot cleaner renewable power again into the facility grid that serves all of Florida’s prospects.”
The US Energy and Information Administration says that solar energy throughout the nation is within the course of of accelerating by 75% inside two years. From Suwannee County, I’m Meteorologist Riley Winch, ABC 27.