{"id":23361,"date":"2022-11-07T14:41:08","date_gmt":"2022-11-07T19:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ckms.ca\/?p=23361"},"modified":"2022-11-07T14:46:30","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T19:46:30","slug":"this-100-solar-community-endured-hurricane-ian-with-no-loss-of-power-and-minimal-damage-cnn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=23361","title":{"rendered":"This 100% solar community endured Hurricane Ian with no loss of power and minimal damage | CNN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Climate resiliency was built into the fabric of Babcock Ranch with stronger storms in mind, and Hurricane Ian was a major test.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2022\/10\/02\/us\/solar-babcock-ranch-florida-hurricane-ian-climate\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">This 100% solar community endured Hurricane Ian with no loss of power and minimal damage | CNN<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>something fishy here.  700k panels must cost a huge chunk of money, for a 2k house sized town?:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Babcock Ranch\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/babcockranch.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">calls itself<\/a>\u00a0\u201cAmerica\u2019s first solar-powered town.\u201d Its nearby solar array \u2014 made up of 700,000 individual panels \u2014 generates more electricity than the 2,000-home neighborhood uses, in a state where most electricity is generated\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eia.gov\/state\/?sid=FL#tabs-4\" target=\"_blank\">by burning natural gas<\/a>, a\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2021\/08\/11\/us\/methane-climate-change\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">planet-warming fossil fuel<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.naplesnews.com\/news\/2009\/apr\/09\/babcock-ranch-be-worlds-first-solar-powered-city\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"http:\/\/www.naplesnews.com\/news\/2009\/apr\/09\/babcock-ranch-be-worlds-first-solar-powered-city\/\">here<\/a>: &#8220;The $300 million to $400 million power plant will sit on 400 acres and be designed to expand as needed, said Eric Silagy, FPL chief development officer.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Climate resiliency was built into the fabric of Babcock Ranch with stronger&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[282],"tags":[1531,805,1530,177],"class_list":["post-23361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-electrcity","tag-florida","tag-hurricane","tag-solar","wpcat-282-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23361\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}