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Panhandle gets $1.5B Solar Farm

Rick Outzen September 27, 2011

National Solar Power of Melbourne announced Monday it has chosen Gadsden County, the county west of Tallahassee, for a $1.5-billion solar power project. The facility will create 120 permanent jobs and 400 construction jobs and produce enough energy to power 32,000 homes. The company was to build eventually 100 such facilities across the state.

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Author: Rick Outzen

Rick Outzen is the publisher/owner of Pensacola Inweekly. He has been profiled in The New York Times and featured in several True Crime documentaries. Rick also is the author of the award-winning Walker Holmes thrillers. His latest nonfiction book is “Right Idea, Right Time: The Fight for Pensacola’s Maritime Park.”