Largest U.S. Solar Utility Goes Online as Obama Awards 100 New Smart Energy Grants

With a lot of backing from the Obama Administration, renewable industries and their infrastructures are growing at an exponential rate, making them increasingly available to consumers.

President Barack Obama was most recently on-hand at the Florida Power and Lights DeSoto Next Generation Solar Energy Center as it was powered up for the first time.

With more than 90,500 solar panels, the plant is now the largest solar photovoltaic facility in the country, with the capacity to annually generate an estimated 42,000 megawatt-hours or enough power to serve about 3,000 homes.

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