SunPower to build 2 solar plants for Florida Power & Light, one will be largest in US

NEW YORK (Associated Press) - SunPower Corp. said Thursday that Florida Power & Light Co. hired it to build two solar power generating plants, one of which is expected to be the largest in the U.S.

SunPower will design and build a 25-megawatt plant in DeSoto County, Fla., to be completed next year, and a 10-megawatt plant at the Kennedy Space Center, to be completed in 2010. FPL will own, operate and maintain the two plants, both of which require state regulatory approval.

The company said the “largest operating solar photovoltaic power plant in North America is currently the 14-megawatt installation located at Nellis Air Force Base in Nev., also built by SunPower.”

A one-megawatt plant running continuously at full capacity can power 778 households each year, according to the U.S. Department of Energy. Solar technology has lower capacity since its power generation is constrained by availability of the sun.

SunPower is majority owned by Cypress Semiconductor Corp. Florida Power & Light is a unit of FPL Group Inc.

CityBlogUSA Opens Florida Blogging Network

Phoenix, AZ, February 4, 2008. CityBlogUSA, a division of the e-Partner National Relocation and Brokerage Services Network announced that effective Monday, February 4, 2008, it would begin to market the CityBlog Resident blogging network for Florida cities to real estate agents.

The Company launched the BETA version of CityBlogUSA in July and has been test marketing positions in selective markets in its 50-State, 25,000+ cities network to real estate agents on an exclusive basis.

Company Vice President, Robert Barringer said, “we created CityBlog with the idea that consumers want to blog about their favorite cities or hometown and to directly post information about lifestyles, real estate, jobs, health care, schools and even politics from an insider’s perspective.”

“CityBlog Florida allows residents, businesses and real estate industry professionals to open up the local information portals for those seeking to relocate and for those residents who want to post alternative information that the newspapers, TV and magazines aren’t reporting…after all, who knows more about a community than the people who live there?”, said Barringer.

Agents can “Stake a Claim” to their city as its “Real Estate and Relocation Specialist” and hold that position exclusively, interact by posting blogs, talk about real estate and any other local issues they would like to include in the blog.

Barringer said, “The most powerful thing about CityBlog is that any resident can become an author…we are just setting up a network and trying to sell ad space…we believe in the consumer-centricity of the economy, especially when it comes to real estate and local lifestyles.”

People can blog Miami, Orlando, Jacksonville, Tampa, Gainesville, Hollywood, Tallahassee, Boca Raton, Sarasota, and any other city and have the same blogging experience. You can jump to any Florida city and be blogging in minutes by going to www.FloridaBlogPage.com, this very site.

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