To supply The Villages with electric power, you would need about a 400 MW solar farm. This would cost about $500M and take up about 1000 acres of land. You would also need battery storage to be completely independent of outside power sources. If you wanted
enough battery storage for 1 day of average residential usage that may cost another $300M.
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Originally Posted by Two Bills
I think you will find that the US is far from being on its own regarding the power sources you mention, in fact, compared to Europe, Scandinavia, and many other countries, America is lagging way behind.
When you consider the amount of sunshine that Florida alone gets, you would think a solar farm or two around/in The Villages, could probably make the place self sufficient for electric energy.
Probably show a profit selling surplus electricity to local grid.
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