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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/k. Wh) 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 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 -121 w 8 n. 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