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FPL invests into its push to be a national leader in solar power

As it increases its solar footprint across the state, Florida Power & Light has opened an education center to spread the word about the efficiency and benefits of the sun as an energy producer.


  • By Louis Llovio
  • | 5:00 a.m. May 1, 2024
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Florida Power & Light has opened a new solar education center in Charlotte County.
Florida Power & Light has opened a new solar education center in Charlotte County.
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On a cloudy Monday morning in late April, officials from Florida Power & Light Co. gathered in a field about a mile off State Road 31 deep in Charlotte County.

To reach that isolated road, which dead ends where a company holds eco tours, you had to drive down a series of two-lane highways, sharing space with big trucks and, at one point, the carcass of an alligator.

 


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Louis Llovio

Louis Llovio is the deputy managing editor at the Business Observer. Before going to work at the Observer, the longtime business writer worked at the Richmond Times-Dispatch, Maryland Daily Record and for the Baltimore Sun Media Group. He lives in Tampa.

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