The archive
- A-01Hardened schools, hurricane shelters, and the solar that tags along. Florida's shelter retrofit money pays to keep a school standing in a storm.
- A-02The installers are the bottleneck, not the panels. Florida keeps adding solar near the top of the national rankings, but the crews who climb the roofs are in short supply, and the money to train more of them is thin.
- A-03Florida's brownfield solar map: the stacks, the old plants, and the liability underneath. The land nobody else wants is where some of Florida's solar is quietly going.
- A-04Heat pumps in a Florida August: comfort is a moisture problem. In this climate the right heat pump is the one that pulls water out of the air, not just heat.
- A-05Gulf wind is a maybe, not a plan. The eastern Gulf has modest wind, shallow water, and a military range sitting on top of it.
- A-06Florida's efficiency goals were cut. Your rebates show it.. The Public Service Commission set low energy efficiency targets and utilities closed programs.
- A-07The parking lot is the new roof. Florida schools, hospitals, and malls are covering their lots with solar canopies.
- A-08Community solar keeps losing in Tallahassee. Shared-solar bills die in Tallahassee almost every year.
- A-09The grid at sea level: Miami Beach's expensive adaptation. Salt water and substations do not mix.
- A-10A Battery on the Wall, a Hurricane on the Map. Storage sales picked up after the last storm seasons.
- A-11Solar on a Florida condo roof: the law is on your side, mostly. State law bars associations from banning solar, but a condo roof is shared property, and that changes the approvals, the math, and the insurance.
- A-12Turkey Point asks to run its reactors into the 2050s. Florida Power and Light wants up to 80 years out of two reactors on Biscayne Bay.
- A-13Cattle under panels: the lease Florida ranchers can live with. Agrivoltaics in Florida means shade for the herd and rent for the ranch.
- A-14Hardening the grid, mile by expensive mile. Florida's utilities file storm protection plans that decide which poles get stronger, which neighborhoods go underground, and which trees get cut.
- A-15Panels on the pond: Florida tests floating solar on water it already owns. Wastewater lagoons and cooling reservoirs cost nothing to rent.
- A-16Florida did not end net metering. The argument over it is another matter.. Whatever the sales flyers say, the old rooftop credit is still in place at last public report.