Largest Photovoltaic Plant/City Proposed in Florida

This Week’s CleanLantern is Babcock Ranch – a proposed solar city that would be located northeast of Fort Myers. Kitson & Partners want to build Babcock Ranch on 17,000 acres and have it include the world’s largest , 75 –Megawatt, photovoltaic powerplant. The plan is for the city to be completely energy independent by day and in fact contribute electricity to the grid throughout the day and in turn pull electricity from the grid at night. Great concept, though there’s still a need for power to come from coal or nuclear at night. We applaud Kitson & Partners for their ambitious plan to build Babcock Ranch and for this we award them this week’s CleanLantern.