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| Orlando, Fl expect eight percent of its power grid to be supplied by solar panels. |

It's something of a mantra to Florida's reputation as the "sunshine state." A vindication of Orlando’s greenhouse aspirations
are hidden in a majority of its ponds that were dug in Central Florida to
collect its runoffs from various rainfalls. From these ponds, rise floating
solar panels to collect solar energy for Orlando's power grid. Plenty more of them can be
found in the immediate vicinity of Orlando where they are directly empowered by
municipal utility districts (The New York Times, 08/31/2018, Making a Sunshine Statement: Thinking Carbon-Free in Florida B1-B3). These so-called municipal utility districts generate 20 megawatts of community solar energy. That's enough energy, plenty in fact, to power 3,200 houses. In the year 2017, EIA traced half the nation's energy consumption to transportation and the industrial sector while one-third of the nation's energy consumption was traced to the electric power industry. You'll need to remember that for a possibility such as that, electric companies will look for any surcharge such as a night light left on to add to their premium and Barack Obama's Clean Power Plan would've caused electric prices to skyrocket in 40 states. A drawback like that can only be topped with net metering as an incentive for consumers to purchase solar energy and donate an additional 10 megawatts from equipment on their rooftops with discount installation and an inclusive, but very expensive, offer of batteries to add to the experience. You can easily make a job like that worth a cooperative person's while with a good piece of change or even three paydays, but greenhouse energy is a powerful enough push for Florida (The New York Times, 08/31/2018, Making a Sunshine Statement: Thinking Carbon-Free in Florida B1-B3). With a little help from Boston, Chicago, and Los Angeles' most prominent business models, consumers will be able to buy all the necessities in bulk. After all, the best things in life are free. The vehicle maintenance shop receives 60 percent of its power from the 1,530 resident-owned solar panels and they'll receive plenty more if Orlando's Venus flytrap project for carbon emissions from power plants and vehicles in algae pools is successful (The New York Times, 08/31/2018, Making a Sunshine Statement: Thinking Carbon-Free in Florida B1-B3).![]() |
Floating solar panels in a pond that rise and fall in
the water, sending power to the grid.
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By the year 2020, Orlando expects at least eight
percent of its electric grid supplied by much of its municipal utility
districts, catered also to Universal studios and Sea World, to come from solar
energy. Orlando's game is one where other cities and municipals are playing at but only under the distinction of net-zero energy usage by the year 2030. And can one city, with three of the wealthiest capitals behind them, really compete with a bunch carbon kingpins that dominate a world where health is a small price to pay for greater energy, as well as an entire government that is determined to keep one and crush the other? That's really up to selective perception now, is it? It works through everybody.


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