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Solar Power Installations on Closed Landfills: Technical and Regulatory Considerations
Top Five Retailers of Electricity, with End Use Sectors, 2012 ( Florida)
Entity
Type of Provider
All Sectors (MWh)
Florida Power & Light Co
Investor-Owned
102,127,929
Duke Energy Florida, Inc
Investor-Owned
36,380,683
Tampa Electric Co
Investor-Owned
18,408,580
JEA
Public
11,663,369
Gulf Power Co
Investor-Owned
10,662,634
Total Sales, Top Five Providers
179,243,195
Percent of Total State Sales
81
Retail Electricity Sales Statistics, 2012 (Florida)
Item
Number of Entities
Number of Retail Customers
Retail Sales (Megawatthours)
Percentage of Retail Sales
Revenue from Retail Sales (thousand
dollars)
Percentage of Revenue
Average Retail Price (cents/kWh)
Investor
Owned
5
7,376,114
168,241,454
76.2
Public
33
1,381,365
34,162,933
15.5
17,157,478.6
74.5
10.20
3,756,806.3
16.3
11.00
Total
Federal Cooperative
NA
16
NA
1,065,715 9,823,195
NA 18,269,397 220,674,333
100.0
NA
8.3
23,028,602.
4
NA 2,114,288.5
100.0
NA
9.2
10.44
NA
11.57
Financial feasibility and other factors
1) Federal Incentives for solar energy use can be found on this page – source http://www.dsireusa.org/incentives/index.cfm?State=US&ee=0&re=0
• Corporate Deduction
• Corporate Depreciation
• Corporate Exemption
• Corporate Tax Credit
• Federal Grant Program
• Federal Loan Program
• Personal Exemption
• Personal Tax Credit
2) Florida state incentives can be found on this page – source http://www.dsireusa.org/incentives/index.cfm?re=0&ee=0&spv=0&st=0&srp=1&state=FL
• Corporate Tax Credit
• Local Loan Program
• Local Rebate Program
• Other Incentive
• PACE Financing
• Property Tax Incentive
• Sales Tax Incentive
1) The best efficient solar panel available in market is developed by Professor Martin Green, director of the Australian Centre for Advanced
Photovoltaics at the University of NSW. It has achieved 40.4 per cent "conversion efficiency" by using commercially available solar cells
combined with a mirror and filters that reduce wasted energy.
Source - http://www.smh.com.au/environment/climate-change/solar-energy-world-first-in-australia-20141208-121w8n.html
2) Traditional solar energy production uses one solar cell, which limits the conversion of sunlight to electricity to around 33 percent.
Solar Cell Efficiencies