Duke Energy has accomplished its first group solar web site in Hardee County, Fla., in its drive to make extra solar power out there for all prospects in Florida. The Fort Green Renewable Energy Center is the primary of 10 solar websites, totaling 750 MW, which are a part of the corporate’s new Clean Energy Connection group solar program.
Through this system, Duke Energy Florida prospects can subscribe to solar power and earn credit towards their electrical energy payments with out having to put in or keep their very own tools.
“Bringing cleaner resources onto the grid is important to our customers and our company,” says Melissa Seixas, Duke Energy Florida’s state president. “By subscribing to the Clean Energy Connection program and supporting solar sites like this one, our customers are joining a community that is helping drive Florida to a cleaner energy future.”
The 74.9 MW facility was constructed on roughly 500 acres of repurposed mining land in Hardee County, Fla. The venture consists of practically 265,000 solar panels, using a fixed-tilt racking system that may produce sufficient carbon-free energy to successfully power greater than 23,000 average-sized properties at peak manufacturing.
The second Clean Energy Connection web site, Bay Trail Renewable Energy Center in Citrus County, is anticipated to start supporting Clean Energy Connection subscriptions later this summer time.
Launched in April 2022, the Clean Energy Connection program permits prospects to subscribe to kW blocks of solar power from the corporate’s Clean Energy Connection solar portfolio. The month-to-month subscription charge will assist pay for the price of development and operation of the solar power vegetation and is conveniently added to a buyer’s common electrical invoice.
The program units apart 26 MW for income-qualified prospects who take part in authorities subsidy applications or Duke Energy’s low-income energy effectivity program, Neighborhood Energy Saver.
