Origis completes 100-MW Tennessee solar project for Google data centers

• On April 25, representatives from Google, The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), Origis Energy as well as Excelsior Energy Capital celebrated the conclusion of Skyhawk Solar, a 100-MWAC project situated in Obion County, Tennessee. Skyhawk Solar is a utility-scale solar project in Tennessee currently providing carbon-free energy (CFE) to Google's data centers in Montgomery County, Tennessee as well as Jackson County, Alabama.

Lawmakers, community members and also other project stakeholders signed up with the "Flip the Switch" party held on the project site near the Everett-- Stewart Regional Airport.

Skyhawk Solar, revealed in 2020, was established under the TVA Green Invest program and also contributes to TVA's ongoing press to grow clean energy in its seven-state service area. Construction started in July 2022.

" Skyhawk shows what is possible when we collaborate with a shared vision to utilize low cost, clean, trustworthy, renewable resource to drive jobs as well as financial investments into the communities we offer," said Doug Perry, elderly VP of TVA business energy solutions. "Together with our companions, we are constructing the country's most advanced energy system to assist us fulfill our decarbonization as well as energy safety and security goals."

Origis Energy established as well as constructed the project under a strategic alliance with TVA, using a proven development version that emphasizes considerate community interaction as well as a mission to make certain projects benefit the neighborhood areas in which they are built.

" Origis is proud to be part of Skyhawk Solar, a clean energy project assisting to fulfill TVA and also Google decarbonization goals while contributing substantial economic benefits to neighborhood communities for decades to come," stated Johan Vanhee, Chief Commercial as well as Procurement Office, Origis Energy. "With specialist analysis, we approximate the project to have actually brought $23 million in neighborhood community based financial benefits throughout construction. It will certainly supply an estimated $31 million in neighborhood financial benefits throughout the life of the project. These funds consist of numerous bucks in property taxes, benefiting Obion County and its locals with support for government services as well as the area school system."

Excelsior provided financing as well as is the project owner, providing clean energy from the solar plant with a lasting Power Purchase Agreement. The Skyhawk Solar capacity adds to progressing Google's goal of operating 24/7 carbon-free energy by 2030.

To power its data center campuses in the Southeastern United State, Google has purchased 413 MW of power generated by several solar ranches within the TVA territory. The impact of the renewable resource purchase program has additionally caused repurposing a retired nonrenewable fuel source plant. Among the Google data centers powered by Skyhawk Solar is located on TVA's Widows Creek retired coal plant site in North Alabama. Widows Creek offered the TVA ratepayers for over 7 years. The Google facility is thought to be the first data center to be found on a repurposed coal generation site, a powerful instance of workforce as well as local economic development benefits resulting from the transition to American generated clean energy.

This year, nearly 60% of TVA's electricity is from carbon-free generation. To meet the area's renewable resource requirements and also reduced Valley carbon, TVA prepares to add 10,000 megawatts of solar by 2035.

Origis gave construction oversight, contracting with Wanzek Construction to construct the facility. Skyhawk Solar will certainly be operated and also maintained by Origis Services.