[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 161 (2015), Part 7]
[House]
[Pages 9424-9425]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




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     FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY AND FLORIDA POWER AND LIGHT 
                              PARTNERSHIP

  (Mr. CURBELO of Florida asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute.)
  Mr. CURBELLO of Florida. Mr. Speaker, I rise today in strong support 
of the newly announced partnership with Florida International 
University, a nationally respected institution of higher learning in my 
district, and Florida Power and Light.
  FIU and FPL are working toward providing cleaner energy solutions to 
south Florida, something I wholeheartedly support. The project involves 
the installation of more than 5,700 solar panels on 23 canopy-like 
structures that will be constructed over the next few months in FIU's 
engineering center parking lot. Engineering students at FIU will 
directly monitor the amount of energy generated from these solar panels 
and the effects they have on the electricity grid that provides power 
for south Florida.
  It was recently announced that FPL, which already is the largest 
generator of solar energy in Florida, is expected

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to triple its presence in the business by 2016. Such an undertaking is 
only possible with talented and capable students, and I am glad to see 
FPL is helping to train a new generation of engineers that will create 
fresh solutions for our energy needs.
  So with that, Mr. Speaker, I want to congratulate FIU and FPL on 
their partnership and wish them success. I look forward to visiting the 
campus soon and seeing the progress being made.

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