The Gainesville City Commission unanimously approved a groundbreaking project (yesterday, July 16, 2020) that will bring 50 megawatts of affordable solar power to the community by 2022. It will be the first utility-scale solar+storage project in the utility’s service territory. It will be located in Alachua County, approximately 2 miles South of GRU’s Parker Road […]
OUC to Install Weather Monitoring System to Support Solar PV Growth
The Orlando Utilities Commission (OUC) has started a project to install a network of around two dozen weather stations scattered around it’s service territory to provide high resolution real-time measurements to study cloud formation and movement and to help with development of intra-hour forecasting in support of integrating increasingly greater amounts of solar PV into […]
FMPA and Florida Muncipal-backed Solar Project – One of Largest in the Nation
Major Solar Energy Project Announced by Florida Municipal Utilities Project will be one of the largest municipal-backed solar projects in the nation. Contracts have been signed for 223.5 MW of solar PV generation at 3 sites, to come online in 2020. Florida Municipal Power Agency (FMPA), in conjunction with 12 Florida municipal electric utilities and […]