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Published April 27, 2024
Skeleton Creek Energy Center, LLC
NEXTera ENERGY RESOURCES
The truth about solar energy and the Skeleton Creek Energy Center
Skeleton Creek Energy Center, LLC
is an indirect, wholly-owned subsidiary of NextEra Energy Resources, LLC
Rhetoric: Solar panels are dangerous and leach chemicals into the ground and pose a risk to public health.
Reality: People have been safely living and working around solar panels for generations. Panels are made of solid materials and do not pose a chemical hazard to the general public, underlying soil or groundwater. Solar photovoltaic panels typically consist of glass, polymer, aluminum, copper and semiconductor materials that can be recovered and recycled at the end of their useful life. In fact, studies have shown health-related air quality benefits from solar energy are worth even more than the electricity itself.*
* Wiser, Ryan et al. On the Path to SunShot The Environmental and Public Health Benefits of Achieving High Penetrations of Solar Energy in the United States. National Renewable Energy Laboratory 2016
SkeletonCreekProject.com
The truth about solar energy and the Skeleton Creek Energy Center
Skeleton Creek Energy Center, LLC
is an indirect, wholly-owned subsidiary of NextEra Energy Resources, LLC
Rhetoric: Solar panels are dangerous and leach chemicals into the ground and pose a risk to public health.
Reality: People have been safely living and working around solar panels for generations. Panels are made of solid materials and do not pose a chemical hazard to the general public, underlying soil or groundwater. Solar photovoltaic panels typically consist of glass, polymer, aluminum, copper and semiconductor materials that can be recovered and recycled at the end of their useful life. In fact, studies have shown health-related air quality benefits from solar energy are worth even more than the electricity itself.*
* Wiser, Ryan et al. On the Path to SunShot The Environmental and Public Health Benefits of Achieving High Penetrations of Solar Energy in the United States. National Renewable Energy Laboratory 2016
Related Knowledge Center: ENERGY BASICS: solar
Declining costs and government encouragement have resulted in a rapid increase in solar energy production in the United States over the past 10 years, although solar’s share remains small: 1.6 percent of all electricity generation in 2018. That rapid growth is projected to continue.