Florida Power & Light Company (NYSE: FPL) has contracted Lauren Engineers & Constructors to build its previously announced 75-megawatt (MW) concentrated solar power (CSP) plant near Indiantown, Florida.
Lauren will serve as the engineering, procurement and construction contractor for the plant, which will be the largest solar thermal plant outside of California and one of the first hybrid solar facilities to be connected to an existing combined-cycle power plant.
The project, named the Martin Next Generation Solar Energy Center, will be located on 500 acres of land adjacent to FPL’s Martin Plant.
Lauren built the Nevada Solar One Power Plant, a 64-MW solar power
plant located in Boulder City, Nevada, that was completed in June 2007.
The company has offices throughout the US and Canada, offering services
in diversified markets such as Alternative Energy, Polymers, Power,
Pulp & Paper, Refining, Special Metals and Materials Handling.
Using Parabolic Trough Technology to capture heat from the sun, the Martin project will include approximately 200,000 parabolic mirrors. Total power produced for this new solar plant will be 155,000 megawatt hours (MWh) of power annually–enough power for 11,000 homes or 26,000 people.
According to FPL’s website, the Martin Facility is expected to reduce green house gas emissions by approximately 2.75 million tons over a thirty year period, which is the equivalent of removing more than 18,700 cars from the road annually for the next 30 years.
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