Before, during or after Hurricane Ian.

Check it out on Goodle news. The town is called, "Babcock Ranch."

"America's first Solar Powered Town."

Looks like Solar works better than the grid.

Edited: 10/03/2022 at 01:24 PM by sandi

"An 870-acre solar farm run through a partnership with Florida Power & Light (FPL) powers some of the community. "

It's ON the grid!

Fake News!

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Edited: 10/03/2022 at 02:08 PM by Fish Killer

Puerto Rico needs this.

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"One of the reasons why propaganda tries to get you to hate government is because it's the one existing institution in which people can participate to some extent and constrain tyrannical unaccountable power." Noam Chomsky.

Do they have 870 acres for solar panels to supply 2000 homes?

THis is an on grid system also...not off grid.

LMAO!

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-They are both card carrying narcissists.
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I did see photos of hundred of ground mount Solar Panels. They may belong to FPL. I have no idea. The point is, Solar works. They never lost power.

I never lost power.

GO SOLAR.

My system has paid for itself in saving on my electric bill.

In simple terms, It works.

Liar!

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-They are both card carrying narcissists.
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No Facts!

typical maga...

please show us some facts. you don't have any. again.

just make shit up.

LIAR!

FACT!

LMFAO

Pretty cool. From the 2020 Forbes (that liberal rag, haha!) article, "The town is powered by an 880-acre solar field at the Babcock Ranch Solar Energy Center run by FPL on land donated by Babcock Ranch, the largest solar and storage system in the country. Energy is harnessed from approximately 700,000 panels, processed and fed into the grid from the FPL substation. The power first reaches the town and the remaining returns to the grid to serve other customers. When the sun sets, the stored energy provides uninterrupted power. "

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Solar is The Present and The Future.

It's simple.

It works.

Gary's MAGA jealousy is going to be able to power the entire state here pretty soon.

Nuthin like harnessing the energy of MAGA jelly.. just bring up EV's, women with power, or Putin's demise.. almost forgot: or ask Qpap about California- you'll need two grids for that one.. Jelly everywhere- yuck.

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Zzzzzzz.. Zzzzzzz.. Braaaaaapp!

Zzzzzzzzzzzzzz....

Instead of paying your electric bill you pay off a very expensive solar system that might last 20 years.

Pay your electric bill or pay for a finite personal poorly designed electric system.....

Either way you will pay!

FOOL!



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Edited: 10/04/2022 at 04:15 AM by Fish Killer

yep. you got a good handle on it. whatever the fukk it is..tell us more

The modern dinosaurs don't want to evolve.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/weat...ricane-ian/ar-AA12xPUz

On Thursday, Gov. Ron DeSantis said that there were more than 2 million reported power outages in southwest Florida. Lee and Charlotte counties, "are basically off the grid at this point," he said that morning. But Babcock, located in Charlotte County, was the exception.

It's 100% solar-based, with 150 megawatts of its power generated by nearby Florida Power & Light solar facilities. Having this system in place prevented the community from losing power while most of the nearby areas were without it for days.

The solar panels held up "nothing short of amazing," Hall told CBS News. That power even helped keep a storm shelter open that wasn't even expected to be used because of the delayed delivery of a generator. But at the last minute, the shelter was opened, and according to Hall "was soon the only shelter in the region that still had power."

FPL still has to assess the solar field, but she said that this is actually the second time that field has been tested - and proven to be resilient. It was also challenged when the eye of Hurricane Irma passed over the area in 2017.

"Out of 343,000 solar panels spanning 440 acres - none of them were dislodged, and only two panels had to be replaced due to damage from flying debris," she said of the solar field's success during Irma.

Since then, solar generation in the community has doubled. It now has nearly 700,000 solar panels across about 900 acres.

As people in many of the surrounding areas were forced to boil water because of rampant flooding, Babcock did not. The community has its own water and wastewater plants, with all of the water coming from wells that tap into a deep aquifer, Hall said.

In fact, the damage was minimal. Power and the internet never even went out.

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They have a great team of consulting engineers.
Probably the best I've worked with in SFL.

They have 870 acres for solar panels to supply 2000 homes.

This is an on grid system also...not off grid.

LMAO!

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-They are both card carrying narcissists.
^These are PROVED facts.

did anyone say it was off grid? no.

when the grid went down, did they have power? yes.

moron.

My current client company in Puerto Rico has a solar power system, I don't know if they can tie it to the grid or not.
They were up and online through the storms, and since,

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malice may attack it,
ignorance may deride it,
but in the end,
there it is." -Sir Winston Churchill

The grid didn't go down for them.

Moron!



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-BOTH of them have no clue who their owner is.
-They are both card carrying narcissists.
^These are PROVED facts.

really?

got facts?

the grid went down for me.

i still had power.

GO SOLAR!!!

Some grid tied systems can untie from the grid when needed.

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"The truth is incontrovertible.
malice may attack it,
ignorance may deride it,
but in the end,
there it is." -Sir Winston Churchill