Hold on to your hats… Florida Power & Light (FPL) is gearing up to launch a $15.5 million solar rebate pilot program. The funds are expected to go fast. “We expect the available funding to be claimed very quickly so we encourage interested customers to start researching projects and meeting with contractors as soon as [...]

Good news for Florida customers of Progress Energy: they’ll soon be eligible to receive up to $20,000 for installing solar panels. The utility, which serves 3 million customers in Florida and the Carolinas, is expanding to the Sunshine State its popular SunSense solar rebate program. Starting March 15, homeowners who install solar panels will be [...]

Happy Monday everyone. The beginning of the final week of the month brings us great solar energy news from the south, as the University of Central Florida (UCF) has announced the completion of a new energy research facility. UCF has added an energy efficiency testing lab to its Florida Solar Energy Center — a 20-acre complex that already holds a solar research library, a photovoltaic (PV) materials lab and a solar thermal testing lab.

“How much are you willing to pay for solar energy?” It’s a question that’s surely to pit two important priorities against once another: environmental stewardship versus our checkbooks. Let the battle begin.

Many Florida homeowners who applied for rebates when installing energy-efficient air conditioning and solar energy systems as part of the Florida Solar Rebate Program have waited quite a while for that check in the mail.

While the exact location and cost of constructing the park has not been released, we do know that SPI has signed a letter of intent to build the 20-megawatt (MW) PV park on 285 acres of land and sell the clean energy to the local utility company through a long term power purchasing agreement (PPA).

On Tuesday, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced that it will contribute $8.5 million to the completion of four different utility grid infrastructure projects in three different states

Solar Industry professionals are becoming increasingly worried that Florida, nicknamed the “Sunshine State” for its abundance of warm weather, is missing out on all the fun in the sun.

Yesterday, FPL finally received recognition for all of its over achievement when the utility was given the Southeastern Electric Exchange’s (SEE) Chairman’s Award. It is the highest award given the SEE, which is a non-profit association of investor-owned electric utility companies.

When completed, the Rinehart solar farm in Lake Mary, Florida will be a 10-megawatt (MW) farm with a mixture of ground-mounted and rooftop photovoltaic (PV) systems. It will be the largest solar PV project in Central Florida and one of the largest in the state.