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DeSoto could become solar central

20 June 2008 | Market Watch: News From Around The Web | Source: heraldtribune.com
DeSoto County -- The county that hosts Florida's oldest rodeo may soon harness the sun's rays and gain world renown in the process.

More than 3,000 Florida homes could begin using clean energy by the end of 2009 if Florida Power & Light receives permission to build a solar power plant in DeSoto County, north of Arcadia.

The proposed solar array, on 1,525 of 13,500 acres the company owns near the Hardee County line, would be the largest photovoltaic power plant in the world at 25 megawatts, according to FPL filings with the Florida Public Service Commission.

The DeSoto County plant would be 100 times larger than FPL's photovoltaic demonstration project at Rothenbach Park on Bee Ridge Road in Sarasota County.

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