Tuesday, April 5, 2011

BlueChip Energy Announces Development of 40 Megawatt Solar Farm in Florida


Signs Solar Power Purchase Agreement with Progress Energy Florida

                  BlueChip Energy™ (BCE), a fully-integrated solar energy provider for residential, commercial, government and utility applications, today announced a power purchase agreement (PPA) to supply Progress Energy Florida with renewable solar photovoltaic (PV) power from the Sorrento Eagle Dunes Solar Farm, a 40 megawatt (MW) utility-scale solar PV facility the company is developing in Central Florida.

                 The solar farm project, located in Lake County, Florida, will have a total capacity of 40 MW and an annual generation of more than 64,000,000 kilowatt-hours. This is equivalent to the annual energy use of roughly 8,000 area homes. The Sorrento project will be the largest private solar plant in the State of Florida and one the largest solar PV projects in the United States. The annual power generated from the solar plant will displace over 25,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide per year.

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