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Facebook parent company Meta is commissioning seven new solar projects in Georgia and also Tennessee totaling 720 MWAC to support its regional operations with renewable energy.

Graphite Solar site is providing power to a Meta-owned data centre

Consumer-owned utility Walton Electric Membership Corporation (EMC) and independent power producer (IPP) Silicon Ranch have completed the building and construction of 3 utility-scale solar PV projects with a total capacity of 287MW that will certainly be made use of to power Meta's (previously Facebook) procedures in Georgia, United States.

Electric energy Salt River Project (SRP) on Thursday introduced it has contracted 500 MW of solar projects in Arizona, the bulk of which will certainly support the procedures of a local data centre planned by social media giant Facebook Inc (NASDAQ: FB).

EDP Renewables and also utility firm Salt River Project (SRP) have actually performed a 25-year power purchase contract for 200 MW at the Randolph Solar Park in Pinal County, located in south-central Arizona

Graphite Solar 1 in Utah will certainly contribute renewable power to Facebook's brand-new information centre in Eagle Mountain

The social media titan will take 110MW of power from Shelby County project under PPA

D. E. Shaw Renewable Investments' (DESRI) 180-MWac Cove Mountain solar projects in Iron County, Utah have actually started industrial operation. Cove Mountain and also Cove Mountain 2 have long-term PPAs with PacifiCorp in support of Facebook, supplying its data center procedures with new solar resources. Swinerton Renewable Energy created the projects.

Sunseap Group has actually authorized a multi-year online power purchase agreement (VPPA) with Facebook for solar energy from Singapore's largest overseas floating solar farm (OFPV) in the Straits of Johor.

REBA has actually released the listing of Top 10 United States big clean power purchasers for the year 2020 with Amazon at the top with procurements worth 3.163 GW.

Former Facebook staff member as well as present enfant terrible of high money Chamath Palihapitiya is making news again with a $1.3 billion twofer SPAC and PIPE deal into the solar power financing business, Sunlight Financial.

Dominion Energy revealed today that a person of its subsidiaries has actually obtained the 150-megawatt (AC) Hardin solar creating facility, which recently entered solution in Hardin County, Ohio, from Chicago-based Invenergy.

Walton Electric Membership Corporation (EMC), a consumer-owned utility with a track record for power development, and Silicon Ranch, one of the nation's largest independent power producers, revealed that two even more solar centers are now functional in Georgia to help sustain Facebook's operations in the state.

Facebook has actually signed a Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with Singaporean power company Sunseap Group to build and make use of solar panels on the rooftops of 1,200 public housing blocks and 49 government buildings.

As Facebook races to meet its objective of coming to be 100% powered by renewables by the end of this year, it has made an additional substantial financial investment in tidy power by signing contracts for 806 MW of brand-new solar and wind capability, with projects in Ireland and also the US states of Utah, Ohio, Illinois, and also Tennessee.