Duke Energy selects sites for 150MW of solar

• 75MW Fort Green project to be improved a previous mine and 75MW Bay Trail is sited at a future mine area

Duke Energy Florida has actually chosen places for its 2 most recent solar photovoltaic or pv plants in the United States state, totalling 150MW of new capability when functional.

The 75MW Fort Green solar plant will be integrated in Hardee County and also will certainly include about 265,000 solar panels, organized on a fixed-tilt racking system.

The Bay Trail solar plant will be built in Citrus County and also will comprise 197,000 tracking bifacial solar panels.

The Bay Trail center is the website of a future mining area and the Fort Green site is a previous phosphate mine.

" These solar energy plants are instances of exactly how mining websites can be created for renewable energy as well as benefit our areas and the environment," claimed Melissa Seixas, Duke Energy Florida state president.

" Duke Energy Florida is providing on what our customers desire-- access to tidy energy at a competitive rate. We are supplying environmentally friendly, cost-effective and also innovative solar that advantages every one of our Florida customers."