“Florida Power & Light (FPL) – owned by the renewable energy power house NextEra – has spent the past two years mulching the cardboard boxes and wooden pallets used to ship solar panels.. The mulch is then applied onsite.
Images were released of the ongoing process at a McDavid, Florida facility. The Cotton Creek Solar Energy Center is the company’s standard 74.5 MWac facility, with an estimated 200,000 to 250,000 panels installed, translating to roughly 90 to 120 MWdc. The site manager estimated that 9,900 pallets and cardboard boxes were used to deliver the solar panels.”
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Weaver, John Fitzgerald. PV Magazine 11 January 2022.