Duke Power Florida, a part of utility Duke Power Corp (NYSE:DUK), will this month provoke the development of its first floating photo voltaic plant within the state’s Polk County.
The photovoltaic (PV) array will include over 1,800 modules with a complete capability of roughly 1 MW, the mum or dad firm mentioned on Thursday.
The demo set up will cowl round 2 acres (0.8 ha) of water floor on an present cooling pond on the Duke Power Hines Power Complicated in Bartow. Its development is predicted to take about six months to finish.
“Distinctive pilots like floating photo voltaic are serving to us higher perceive the capabilities of modern clear vitality applied sciences that may profit our Florida clients and communities now and sooner or later,” mentioned Melissa Seixas, Duke Power Florida state president.
The venture will likely be executed as a part of Duke Power’s Imaginative and prescient Florida programme, by which the utility goals to check modern applied sciences comparable to microgrids and battery vitality storage. At current, the Florida-based firm owns 10.5 GW of energy technology capability supplying its 1.9 million residential, business and industrial clients inside its service space.
