AES, SRP as well as Meta unveil 100-MW solar farm in Arizona

• A 100-MW solar farm in the United States state of Arizona that will serve community-based not-for-profit power and also water utility Salt River Project (SRP) as well as tech group Meta Platforms Inc (NASDAQ: META) was inaugurated recently, SRP said on Monday.

The freshly operational West Line Solar plant in Pinal County is owned and operated by United States power company AES Corp (NYSE: AES), which has actually committed 50 MW per of the off-takers.

SRP will utilize its portion of the output to serve residential as well as local business customers as part of its new solar offering. Meta has gotten West Line Solar to power its 2.5-million-square-feet (232,258 sq m) data centre it is presently constructing in the Arizona city of Mesa.

SRP looks for to add 2,025 MW of solar power to the grid by 2025. The company says it has actually met over 60% of that objective. West Line Solar is the 3rd utility-scale solar project that AES Corp developed for its consumers.