Storing up the sun: FPL installs battery storage system at local solar sites

  • Stevany Cole, a project developer with Florida Power & Light, speaks about the battery storage technology utilized at the Echo River Solar Energy Center in Suwannee County on Thursday. (JAMIE WACHTER/Lake City Reporter)
    Stevany Cole, a project developer with Florida Power & Light, speaks about the battery storage technology utilized at the Echo River Solar Energy Center in Suwannee County on Thursday. (JAMIE WACHTER/Lake City Reporter)

    WELLBORN — A late afternoon thunderstorm or a cold, winter morning are no longer problems at the Echo River Solar Energy Center.

    The Suwannee County solar site as well as its sister solar farm in Colum…