[USA] “FPL’s Four Newest Solar Power Plants Now Powering Customers, Adding More Than 1 Million Solar Panels to One of the Cleanest Systems in the Country”

[FPL, 31 January 2019]

Florida Power & Light Company (FPL) has begun operations for four new solar power plants located in St Lucie County, Miami-Dade Country, Volusia County, and Columbia County. Each plant has a capacity of 74.5 MW – a total of 300 MW of additional solar capacity for FPL amounting to a total of 1,250 MW of universal solar capacity. The new plants are expected to provide over $40 million in savings for FPL customers. Eric Silagy, President and CEO of FPL, acknowledged the company’s clean energy efforts saying, “These solar plants are the latest tangible evidence of our unparalleled commitment to investing in clean energy technologies for Florida affordably – a strategy that has already dramatically reduced emissions and produced billions of dollars in savings for Floridians.” These four new plants are part of FPL’s “’30-by-30’ plan to install more than 30 million additional solar panels across Florida by 2030’” – amounting to about 11,000 MW of installed capacity.