News - Babcock Ranch
ORLANDO, Fla., June 7 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced that Kitson & Partners, the developers of Babcock Ranch, the first fully sustainable city now under development in Southwest Florida, will be using IBM software to plan and design the city's extensive technology systems.
A Florida developer says he wants to build a 19,500-home city powered entirely by solar energy. Babcock Ranch will be developed by Kitson & Partners on 17,000 acres northeast of Fort Myers, Fla.
A Florida utility and a real estate developer are building the world's largest photovoltaic solar plant in a planned, environmentally friendly city near Fort Myers in southwestern Florida.
Historic agreement will power Babcock Ranch, FL, help create 20,000 jobs in "living laboratory" for clean economy WASHINGTON, April 9 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Real estate developer Kitson & Partners today announced a landmark agreement with electric utility Florida Power & Light to build the world's largest solar photovoltaic power plant at Babcock Ranch, Florida - making it the world's first city powered by solar energy.