{"id":1314,"date":"2020-09-07T06:43:58","date_gmt":"2020-09-07T06:43:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orlando.interplex.net\/blog\/?p=1314"},"modified":"2020-09-07T06:44:00","modified_gmt":"2020-09-07T06:44:00","slug":"orlando-airport-gets-its-first-solar-energy-floating-panels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/orlando.interplex.net\/blog\/2020\/09\/07\/orlando-airport-gets-its-first-solar-energy-floating-panels\/","title":{"rendered":"Orlando Airport Gets its First Solar Energy Floating Panels"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"691\" src=\"http:\/\/orlando.interplex.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Installing_Solar_Panels_7336033672-1024x691.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1315\" srcset=\"http:\/\/orlando.interplex.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Installing_Solar_Panels_7336033672-1024x691.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/orlando.interplex.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Installing_Solar_Panels_7336033672-300x202.jpg 300w, http:\/\/orlando.interplex.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Installing_Solar_Panels_7336033672-768x518.jpg 768w, http:\/\/orlando.interplex.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Installing_Solar_Panels_7336033672-1536x1036.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/orlando.interplex.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Installing_Solar_Panels_7336033672-2048x1382.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Orlando airport takes small steps toward solar power with a floating system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The solar power project is the first major floating system in <a href=\"http:\/\/orlando.interplex.net\/\">Florida<\/a> and one of only a handful in the U.S. The project is being developed by Ciel &amp; Terre, a French pioneer in the photovoltaics that is specialized in floating solar arrays for commercial, government, and non-profit institutions\u00a0in collaboration with D3Energy\u00a0of Florida, \u00a0a leading developer of floating solar systems in the United States. Ciel &amp; Terre that has 60-megawatt of floating experience worldwide manufactured the Hydrelio HDPE-floats that hold the panels and wires.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Floating solar arrays compete with traditional ground systems in price, durability, and performance, according to officials at Orlando International Airport and Orlando Utilities Commission. The panels have been installed on top of a floating, plastic island in a large retention pond between the old terminal and the south terminal. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The floating\nsolar system costs about $520,000. It is tied into a main, underground\npower line at the airport, producing enough power for about 14 homes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The airport. one of the nation\u2019s largest is comprised largely of wetlands. The nearly 20-acre retention pond that hosts the floating solar system is one of the dozens constructed in order to make the airport\u2019s soggy real estate usable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;For instance, the municipal electric utility\nand airport in Lakeland turned to solar power nearly a decade ago. The airport\nsystem produces enough electricity to power about 3,000 homes and businesses,\nand the city is planning an enormous expansion of output and the installation\nof battery storage by 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarpowerworldonline.com\/2017\/05\/trial-floating-solar-installation-orlando-first-hopefully-many-florida-utility\/\">Solar Power World<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Orlando airport takes small steps toward solar power with a floating system. The solar power project is the first major floating system in Florida and one of only a handful in the U.S. The project is being developed by Ciel &amp; Terre, a French pioneer in the photovoltaics that is specialized in floating solar arrays &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/orlando.interplex.net\/blog\/2020\/09\/07\/orlando-airport-gets-its-first-solar-energy-floating-panels\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Orlando Airport Gets its First Solar Energy Floating Panels&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1315,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/orlando.interplex.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1314"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/orlando.interplex.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/orlando.interplex.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orlando.interplex.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orlando.interplex.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1314"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/orlando.interplex.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1314\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1316,"href":"http:\/\/orlando.interplex.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1314\/revisions\/1316"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orlando.interplex.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/orlando.interplex.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orlando.interplex.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orlando.interplex.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}