With about half of our nation bathed in sunlight everyday, and a significant section of the United States located south of the general snow line...it is a wonder that we are not generating solar power by the Triliwatt...let alone the Megawatt... after all, think of all those roof tops in Texas, Arizona, New Mexico, Southern California, Florida, even Alabama and Mississippi...
There are millions of buildings with many millions of square feet facing south...and most are just soaking up the sun with no PV generation going on at all.
But take heart everyone...there is a project that is about to get underway in March that will put Megawatts on the grid in Orlando Florida. The Orange County Convention Center's North/South facing center (one of three key centers in the complex) is situated to effectively exploit the sun and generate more power then other commercial sites in the Southeast...if not all of the US and most of the world.
But don't stop there. There are three planned, and about to be executed, solar farms being initiated in Florida by Progress Energy which will make Florida second only to California in the commercial production of solar power for the grid. Solar may not be the only answer...but it is one of the answers that we need to acknowledge if we are going to take hold of our destiny and generate the energy that we need to keep the United States in the forefront of World development and growth in the century ahead.
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