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74.5 MW

Address

W of 833 & N of Big Cypress Reservation
FL
United States of America

Latitude: 26.69353960176727

Longitude: -81.327604377465

Notes

Planned to be a hybrid power plant, but natural gas portion was defeated.

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Distance (miles)	0	5	10	25
American Indian	0.7%	0.7%	1.2%	1.1%
Asian	0.2%	0.2%	0.5%	0.7%
Black	0.4%	1.6%	4.4%	13.7%
Hispanic	61.4%	72.0%	65.1%	51.0%
White	36.2%	25.2%	28.2%	32.1%
	32.1%
Population	1,830	1,947	15k	130k
Income	$35k			$37k

GROUPS

Group	St.	Interest
Everglades Earth First!		Interested
Seminole Tribe of Florida		Interested

CORPORATION

Name	Relation	Ownership
Florida Power & Light	Owner	0%
McDaniel Reserve Realty Holdings	Developer	0%

LINK

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Fish & Wildlife Service letter 5/2/2011endangered specied impacts, location map
FPL Electric Power Plant Back To Square One? 6/14/2013 "In May 2011, at McDaniel's request, the County passed Ordinance 2011-07, which rezoned eleven parcels of land (3123 acres) from general agricultural use to a Planned Unit Development ...McDaniel subsequently sold the land to [FPL]"
FPL Power Plant in Florida Panther Refuge Stymied by Seminole Lawsuit 9/29/2014 "plans [] evolving from a 1,500-acre solar energy facility to a plant double that size and featuring three natural gas units with nine smokestacks each as high as 150 feet"
Florida Power plans two big new gas-fired power plants by 2023 4/7/2015 "listed as a Preferred or Potential Site in previous FPL Site Plans as a possibility for a future PV facility and/or natural gas-fired CC generation. "
Another Delay For Hendry FPL Plant Hearing 3/29/2016 "new plan to use the 3,127-acre area for solar power generation only, at least for 10 years. [] A massive gas-powered electric plant � one of the largest in the United States - was originally planned for the site."

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Unit #1
Unit Type: Burner: Internal Combustion Engine - Combined Cycle

Status History

Defeated

2016

Fuels and Products

Natural Gas

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Unit #2
Unit Type: Solar Photovoltaic
Power 75 MW

Status History

Operating

2018

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