Press Mention Florida Insider June 23, 2021
SACE Quoted
Florida is becoming the heavyweight solar leader of the Southeast
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Florida has surpassed North Carolina to become the Southeast's leading solar energy state, according to SACE's fourth annual "Solar in the Southeast" report released in June 2021. SACE Solar Program Director Bryan Jacob attributed Florida's rise to favorable economics and strong utility-scale solar deployment, despite pandemic impacts on distributed solar. The report highlights FPL's plans to install 30 million solar panels by 2030 and notes disparities in solar adoption across Florida utilities.
Florida is a bigger state, bigger population, bigger utilities. They were kind of late to the game, let's admit that, but they've really been coming on strong lately, once the economics shifted to where solar was among the least-cost resources they could be bringing on now
Bryan Jacob
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