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UCF engineering students help OUC improve solar energy efficiency
ORLANDO, Fla. – Plans continue for Orlando Utilities Commission to expand its solar energy production in the coming years.Rubin York, a project manager with OUC, walked through one of their solar farms located in East Orange County on Tuesday showing off new technology created and designed from a college classroom 15 miles away.OUC leaders said they challenged University of Central Florida senior engineering students beginning in 2019 to design and build an inexpensive camera-based device that included cloud-mapping and predictive technologies.The end result of the program is a piece of technology called a “skycam,” which maps cloud movements in the area and helps predict their movement over solar farms.Tim O’Brien plans to graduate from