Don't Let the Sun Go Down On a Good Idea

As the mercury keeps shooting out of JEA's coal-fired plant, you have to ask, as residents in the Sunshine State, why don't we have more clean, steady-rate inducing solar power? JEA has some solar generation, and it seems to be successful...

According to Joy Ezell from TRUE - Taylor Residents United for the Environment, "Did you know that JEA has to have a solar plant to power 26 schools and city hall because of a lawsuit settlement with Sierra Club? The solar plant is operational - and is featured in the documentary 'KilowattOurs' - with Susan Hughes, spokesperson for JEA, practically clicking her heels about how wonderful it is and how great it's working. They say they power City Hall and 26 JAX schools with solar power - Florida
Sierra Club negotiated this plan with JEA after the Northside Generating Station's terrible problems with mercury forced the shut down of the first power plant, then they cranked up the new one."

So why not more solar power? Every killowatt generated by solar power means less coal needs to be burned means less mercury fouling our fair city.