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Tallahassee To Build Solar Power Plant

Lance Cheung

Deputy City Manager Reese Goad says the City will start construction on a 100 acre, 20 megawatt solar farm by the airport this summer. 

Goad says customers will be able to subscribe for solar power.

“You’d say, ‘I wanna buy 25 percent of my power and I’d like it to be solar.’ And so we would arrange for a pricing for that amount of your electricity, and you would literally directly participate in it,” Goad says.

Goad estimates prices to be about the same as natural gas. And he says those prices won’t change over time. Origis Energy, an international solar company, will own and operate the plant. The program tries to make solar more widely available by allowing customers that can’t or don’t want solar panels on their home to tap into the system.

Ashley Tressel is a senior Communication and English student at Florida State University. Before WFSU, she interned at the Executive Office of the Governor and The Borgen Project, a national nonprofit for global poverty. She also wrote freelance for Carbonated.tv, a multimedia news site and served as managing editor for the FSU International Programs magazine, Nomadic Noles, in Valencia, Spain. After graduation, Ashley plans to embark on her journalism career somewhere in Colorado.