{"id":1530,"date":"2009-04-13T19:27:33","date_gmt":"2009-04-13T19:27:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/13\/babcock-ranch-florida-100-powered-solar-city\/"},"modified":"2009-04-13T19:27:33","modified_gmt":"2009-04-13T19:27:33","slug":"babcock-ranch-florida-100-powered-solar-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/13\/babcock-ranch-florida-100-powered-solar-city\/","title":{"rendered":"Babcock Ranch Florida 100% Powered Solar City"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Raising the initiative of a sustainable, environmentally sensitive, green community to new heights, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.babcockranchflorida.com\">Babcock Ranch<\/a> (The City of Tomorrow) is planned to be the first city to be 100% powered by the sun, with the majority of its electric needs generated from the largest on-site solar photovoltaic energy facility powering any city on earth. \u00a0By consuming less KW hours than the solar facilities located on the property will produce, Babcock Ranch will become the first city in the world powered by clean, renewable solar energy. <\/p>\n<p>Located near Fort Myers, in beautiful Charlotte County, USA, just minutes from I-75 and the Southwest Florida International Airport, Babcock Ranch is destined to become America\u2019s most talked-about new city. \u00a0A place where neighbors of all backgrounds, ages and incomes can come together to work, to learn, to shop, to play \u2013 and to savor life. \u00a0It\u2019s a new city where innovation will abound \u2013 with planned state-of-the-art infrastructure to assure businesses and residents full access to emerging technologies for communications, energy, education and transportation. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/XcbQMZywOg8&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/XcbQMZywOg8&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Raising the initiative of a sustainable, environmentally sensitive, green community to new heights, Babcock Ranch (The City of Tomorrow) is planned to be the first city to be 100% powered by the sun, with the majority of its electric needs generated from the largest on-site solar photovoltaic energy facility powering any city on earth. \u00a0By consuming less KW hours than<\/p>\n<div class=\"clearfix\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"pull-left padding-top-25\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/13\/babcock-ranch-florida-100-powered-solar-city\/\" class=\"btn btn-theme\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Babcock Ranch Florida 100% Powered Solar City&#8221;<\/span> <i class=\"fa fa-fw fa-long-arrow-right\"><\/i> <\/a>  <\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-nature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1530\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}