Florida utility to close natural gas plants, build massive solar-powered battery
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On Thursday, Florida Power and Light (FPL) announced that it would retire two natural gas plants and replace those plants with what is likely to be the world's largest solar-powered battery bank when it's completed in 2021.Further ReadingAfter working with Tesla’s Australia battery, wind company wants more batteriesFPL, a subsidiary of NextEra Energy, serves approximately 10 million customers in Florida. This week, analyst firm Bloomberg New Energy Finance wrote that the cost of lithium-ion batteries has fallen by 35 percent since the first half of 2018.Further ReadingNatural gas is now getting in the way; US carbon emissions increase by 3.4%The two natural gas plants that FPL will retire were built in the 1970s and have reached the end of their useful life.
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