Welcome to Solar City

Delgadillo details Babcock Ranch, Fla., the America's first powered town designed by Syd Kitson, a real estate developer. Kitson has been planning the development of this southwest Florida community for more than a decade. The way Kitson imagines it, the town will eventually house up to 50,000 residents in 19,500 homes that are almost 100 percent powered by solar energy. Babcock Ranch doesn't have all the features of a typical American city, such as a local government, but it does already have a public school, which serves 156 students who all currently live outside the community. Kitson wants to prove sustainable development is not only possible in the state of Florida but also economical.