Invenergy to set up whopping 1.31-GW solar project in Texas

• Invenergy, a leading privately-held worldwide developer and also operator of lasting energy options, today revealed a 1,310-megawatt solar energy generation facility that will certainly be the biggest in the United States upon conclusion. Currently incomplete in northeast Texas, the Samson Solar Energy Center will support the sustainability objectives of 5 significant consumer brand names and also supply power to three Texas towns.

" Invenergy continues to lead the energy shift, as well as this record-setting project shows our competence at a brand-new scale," claimed Ted Romaine, elderly VP of origination at Invenergy. "The Samson Solar Energy Center is the latest example of what can be attained when companies and utilities look for an ingenious companion to fulfill their sustainability objectives and also buy a clean power future."

As a leading companion to industrial and industrial renewable resource customers, Invenergy has actually gotten greater than 3,500 MW of wind and also solar capacity to help greater than 20 different company customers across 6 U.S. markets as well as in Mexico to reach their sustainability and also tidy power goals.

Samson Solar is just one of several Invenergy advancements that is powering everyday American life, as well as will certainly likewise offer even more Texans with cleaner, affordable power via contracts with:

• AT&T: 500 MW
• Honda: 200 MW
• McDonald's: 160 MW
• Google: 100 MW
• The Home Depot: 50 MW
• City of Bryan, TX: 150 MW
• City of Denton, TX: 75 MW
• City of Garland, TX: 25 MW

" At AT&T, we believe renewable resource benefits the planet, for our company, and for the areas we serve," claimed Scott Mair, president of AT&T Technology & Operations. "With more than 1.5 gigawatts of renewable energy capacity, our portfolio supplies clean electrical energy to the grid, aids to create work and also neighborhood advantages, and also sustains the transition to a low-carbon economic situation. We're excited to join Invenergy's Samson project via the biggest business solar energy deal in the U.S."

Located in Lamar, Red River and also Franklin Counties, Samson Solar is a $1.6 billion capital expense and will certainly sustain up to 600 work throughout the 36-month construction duration. Furthermore, the project will drive considerable neighborhood economic development, bringing greater than $250 million in landowner settlements and supporting neighborhood areas via nearly $200 million in property tax repayments over the life of the project.

Samson Solar will be created in five stages over the following 3 years, with each stage beginning procedure upon conclusion. The complete project is slated to be operational in 2023. When complete, it will generate sufficient power to power almost 300,000 American houses.