Hidden Mickey Solar Panels
5 hidden mickey solar farm there are a lot of solar panels currently on disney property including many on the newly rebuilt mcdonald s restaurant by the all star resorts and on the upcoming guardians of the galaxy coaster at epcot but the most fun collection of solar panels make up the biggest hidden mickey at wdw.
Hidden mickey solar panels. Disney s solar farm isn t the largest hidden mickey however. This particular hidden mickey is pretty obvious so long as you re in a plane when looking at it. The sentinel wrote about the story in may 2015. The farm s 48 000 solar panels will not just help meet walt disney world resort s energy requirements but also those of the surrounding hotels that house the park s visitors.
The mickey shaped solar farm is about 22 acres part of a 15 year agreement that. Solar powered hidden mickeys and more by thomas smith editorial content director disney parks with the arrival of the winter solstice next week our days will again start to stretch with sunshine. Blog mickey first reported the hidden mickey a representation of mickey mouse subtly. And while that means the promise of more mickey bars sunscreen and shorts for most of us it also means a burst of solar power.
Disney continues to find ways to provide clean energy to its parks and resorts and on april 12 unveiled its largest solar farm built by duke energy. New mickey solar farm disney imagineers have strategically placed many hidden mickeys throughout walt disney world over the years. Yet some are visible only from the air duke energy s new solar farm in the shape of enormous mickey ears can be seen all the way from space. Walking through the grass on walt disney world property would yield nothing more than a bunch of.
This video taken from above reveals what s not visible on the ground a 22 acre solar farm in the shape of a not so hidden mickey at walt disney world resort in orlando fla. That would be a 60 acre forest in clermont florida just east of u s. Cleverly designed to resemble the familiar not so hidden mickey the massive solar farm that is located near epcot is clearly visible from space. It s the second to appear at disney world after the mickey mouse shaped solar creation in 2016 which spanned 22 acres.