How Florida created California in sunrise

Solar energy is growing through the US and, for the first time, Florida is being caught in industrial potols and California.

Despite the removal of climate change in 2024, Florida added a solar scale in a larger scale of scale last year last year 3 Gigawatts New ability to come online.

“This is not this,” said Sylvia Leyva Martinez, the main analyst in Wood MacCenzie. “Florida is making up national solar growth.”

Uters, not pushing the roof panels. Florida Power & Light Last year he built more than 70% of the new state of the state. The state rules leave developers to 75 long-term reviews for 75 megawatt projects, which reduces construction and costs.

“It’s not silver bullets,” said Syd Kitson, a town designed to throw Babcock Ranch, almost the sun. “But one thing of Florida has been well accepted. Here, people want the sun. And it works.”

Babcock Ranch is his microgrid and He was online last Ian hurricane in 2022, Many of the southwestern Florida darkened.

“We don’t lose power, internet or water,” Don Bishop said, a property there was there. “That’s how you think about how you think energy.”

The economy is doing the rest. Climbing with the increase in industrial demand and rise in natural gas prices, the sun option is the increasingly cheapest, without grants.

“Utilities are not green because the sun builds green,” said Martinez. “They’re doing cheaper.”

But new challenges are emerging.

In July, President Trump signed A great beautiful bill, that speeds up the solar and wind tax credits. Homeowners 2025. After the year they lose the federal investment credit. Developers have narrower terms and rules with premiere suppliers.

“He won’t kill the market,” Zoë Gaston said, analyst from wooden Mackenzie solar industry. “But it makes math harder.”

Analysts hope now 42% drops Solar roofs in Florida facilities in five years. And while the availability scale continues, network limits are becoming a problem. Utilities are thrown in the warehouse, smart infrastructure and innovative networks.

Babcock Ranch is piloting new microgrid systems to add resilience. It is expected that other communities can take playbook and adjust the lock storm neighborhoods at the same time.

“We’ve been tested for years,” Kitson said. “Now it’s about the scale. It is to show that they can also do to others.”

The question is a greater question whether Florida can maintain this momentum without policy support, and while a lot of natural gas is bent.

“Florida has solar resources,” Mark Jacobson said, Professor of the Stanford Civil and Environmental Engineering Department. “What is missing is a political consistency.”

Watch the video to see how the sun-leader became and what it could slow down.