In February we told you about a new solar farm Disney was planning to build at the western edge of the Walt Disney World Resort property. Recent permits filed with the South Florida Water Management District now reveal the scope of that project, and it is huge.
This project is a 50 megawatt solar facility that will cover 295 acres, which is roughly one and a half times the size of the Seven Seas Lagoon. You can get a sense of the scale of the project from the image above, where the blue area will be completely covered with 518,000 solar panel modules.
We expect that construction will start soon and be completed by the end of the year.
Do you have any idea what those sand-pit-looking things on each side of 429 in that area are?
And how many trees and natural growth are they killing to “help the environment” with these solar panels?
while i love this idea, why not build solar arrays over the absolutely ginormous parking lots at every park? i agree with BobParr–why would they build in this area when solar arrays have dual benefits of being a shade canopy for cars? here’s what they look like for anyone interested…https://bit.ly/2IF3NgR.