Fla. IOUs called on to increase utility-scale solar

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Plans by Florida's big investor-owned utilities to build several hundredrnMW of utility-scale solar capacity are welcomed and praiseworthy, butrnthe IOUs should be building or buying several times as much solarrnpower, given how inexpensive large solar projects have become, thernSouthern Alliance for Clean Energy said Thursday.rn"We are very strong supporters of utilities' adding utility-scale solarrnto their generation portfolios," Stephen Smith, SACE's executiverndirector, said in an interview when asked about Florida Power & Light'srnThursday groundbreakings for three 74.5-MW solar photovoltaicrnprojects in Manatee, DeSoto and Charlotte counties.