ST. PETERSBURG, Fla., February 16, 2021 / PRNewswire / – Duke Energy Florida is fulfilling its commitment to provide cleaner and smarter energy solutions to benefit everyone Florida customers.
The company is investing an estimate $ 1 billion build or acquire a total of 700 megawatts of affordable solar energy installations from 2018 to 2022 in Florida and it will more than quadruple the amount of solar energy in service in the system over the next four years.
With the new year, the company opened its doors in two new solar installations and expects to complete both by the end of 2021:
- The Duette Solar Power Plant will be built on approximately 520 acres in Manatee County, Florida. When in operation, the 74.5 MW facility will consist of approximately 227,000 single-axis tracking solar panels, capable of producing enough electricity to supply approximately 23,000 homes in peak production annually. Here are some pictures of Duet place.
- The Charlie Creek solar power plant will be built on 610 acres in Hardee County, Florida. The 74.9 MW installation will consist of approximately 235,000 single-axis solar panels, capable of producing enough electricity to supply approximately 23,000 homes in peak production annually.
Two additional solar plants will start operating in the spring:
- The Twin Rivers Solar Power Plant was built on 460 acres in Hamilton County, Florida. The 74.9 MW facility consists of approximately 235,000 single-axis tracking solar panels. The panels track the movement of the sun and can produce enough electricity to power approximately 23,000 homes at peak production. Here is the video of the drone from the Twin Rivers website.
- Duke Energy Florida will complete the Santa Fé Solar Plant, built on approximately 600 hectares in Columbia County, Florida. The 74.9 MW plant will consist of approximately 235,000 single-axis tracking solar panels, which will produce enough carbon-free energy to supply more than 23,000 average homes at peak production. Here is the video of the drone from the Santa Fe website.
The company plans to start building an additional solar installation in the middle of the year.
- The Sandy Creek Solar Plant will be built on 625 acres in Bay County, Florida. As the county’s first solar power plant, the facility will bring 74.9 MW of clean generation to the area and will consist of approximately 220,000 single-axis tracking solar panels. The Sandy Creek solar plant is expected to be completed in the spring of 2022.
During construction, each solar project creates about 200 to 300 temporary jobs. When in operation, the plants will generate quiet and carbon-free energy, which will bring tax benefits to the municipalities. All five solar power plants will be owned, operated and maintained by Duke Energy Florida.
“Duke Energy Florida is offering what customers want: innovative, affordable and sustainable clean energy solutions,” said Melissa Seixas, President of Duke Energy Florida. “We are committed to environmental management and more fuel diversity. Customers can expect us to continue our expansion of solar energy for many years to come.”
Building a smarter energy future®
Duke Energy Florida is generating more and more clean energy in Florida, with almost 300 MW of solar generation expected to be added into service this year.
The company continues to encourage renewable investments in the state. In addition to developing our own solar projects, we work with other solar companies to acquire qualified projects that they have explored and use a competitive process to select contractors, solar panels and suppliers of design materials. Through these methods, our solar power plants provide the largest amount of reliable solar energy online to customers in the most efficient and economical way, while creating more jobs in the solar and energy-related markets.
Over the next decade, the company will continue to make innovative and targeted investments in additional solar power plants, battery storage technology, shared solar power, transportation electrification and a modernized power grid to help meet customers’ needs for energy solutions. diverse and reliable.
Duke Energy Florida
Duke Energy Florida, a subsidiary of Duke Energy, has a diverse mix of natural gas, coal and renewable energy generation, providing approximately 10,200 megawatts of its own electrical capacity to approximately 1.8 million customers in a 13,000-mile service area Duke Energy (NYSE: DUK), a Fortune 150 company based in Charlotte, NC, is one of the largest energy controlling companies in the United States. It employs 30,000 people and has an electricity generation capacity of 51,000 megawatts through its regulated utilities and 3,000 megawatts through its unregulated Duke Energy Renewables unit.
Duke Energy is transforming its customers’ experience, modernizing the power grid, generating cleaner energy and expanding the natural gas infrastructure to create a smarter energy future for the people and communities it serves. The regulated services of the Electric Utilities and Infrastructure unit serve approximately 7.7 million retail electricity consumers in six states North Caroline, South Carolina, Florida, Indiana, Ohio and Kentucky. The Gas Utilities and Infrastructure unit distributes natural gas to more than 1.6 million customers in five states – North Caroline, South Carolina, Tennessee, Ohio and Kentucky. The Duke Energy Renewables unit operates wind and solar generation facilities across the U.S., as well as energy storage and micro-grid projects.
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