EDPR strikes 156MW United States PPA with Meta

• Electricity will come from the 240MW Cattlemen solar farm in Texas

EDP Renewables The United States and Canada is sell 156MW of electricity to Facebook proprietor Meta from the 240MW Cattlemen solar farm in the US state of Texas under a lasting power purchase agreement (PPA).

Cattlemen, which lies in Milam County, represents an estimated capital investment of around $280m by EDPR and is prepared for to be functional in 2023.

It will certainly give financial benefits by means of payments to neighborhood landowners, an estimated $55m in taxes paid to support local institutions as well as other crucial social work, job opportunities throughout the project's construction and also operations, as well as an increase in money spent at businesses in the vicinity of the project.

Cattlemen notes the 2nd PPA EDPR and also Meta have actually executed, with the initial being a 139MW deal for electricity from the 200MW Headwaters 2 wind farm in Indiana.

The business are additionally partnering on EDPR's 200MW Randolph solar park, where the entire capacity of the project will certainly be devoted to supporting Meta's information centre in Mesa, Arizona.

In overall, EDPR and Meta are working together to bring 495MW of renewable resource to the grid, supplying to Meta's goal of sustaining its worldwide procedures with 100% renewable energy.

Meta head of renewable resource Urvi Parekh said: "As our worldwide infrastructure remains to expand, collaborations like the one with EDP Renewables are significantly important for us to fulfill our ambitious sustainability goals,.

" Buying regional communities is important to us, and we are proud that this project is bringing brand-new solar power to the grid, providing construction jobs, and contributing to local water financial savings."

EDPR North America chief executive Sandhya Ganapathy claimed: "EDP Renewables is pleased, once again, to team up with Meta on an additional renewable resource project and to be a part of its sustainability goals.

" We are devoted to playing a leading role in the power transition, and also projects like Cattlemen enable us to achieve that while providing many economic advantages as well as opportunities to the neighborhood communities."