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    EDP Renewables North America and Meta sign PPA for Cattlemen Solar Park in Texas

    April 15, 2022
    This is the second PPA signed between EDP Renewables and Meta. The Cattlemen project will power equivalent of more than 37,000 average homes in Texas and save approximately 304 million gallons of water annually
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    EDP Renewables North America and Meta, the Facebook parent company, have signed a long-term power purchase agreement for 156 MW at the 240-MW Cattlemen Solar Park in Milam County in Texas.

    EDPR NA will construct, own and operate the Cattlemen Solar Park, which requires approximately $280 million of investment. The solar park is expected to be operational in 2023.

    This is the second PPA signed between EDP Renewables and Meta. The Cattlemen project will power equivalent of more than 37,000 average homes in Texas and save approximately 304 million gallons of water annually, which would have used in conventional power generation.

    The PPA doesn't mean that Meta receives the zero-carbon electricity. Instead, the investment helps finance construction of renewable projects and the deployment into the grid.

    The first PPA between EDP Renewables and Meta was for a 200-MW Headwaters II Wind Farm in Indiana. The firms also partnered on the 200-MW Randolph Solar Park, which supports Meta’s data center in Mesa, Arizona. The two firms are working on bringing 495 MW of renewable energy to the grid.

    “As our global infrastructure continues to grow, partnerships like the one with EDP Renewables are increasingly important for us to meet our ambitious sustainability goals,” said Urvi Parekh, head of renewable energy at Meta. “Investing in local communities is important to us, and we are proud that this project is bringing new solar energy to the grid, providing construction jobs, and contributing to local water savings.” 

    Miguel Stilwell d’Andrade, CEO of EDP & EDPR, added, “Projects like Cattlemen Solar Park reinforce our commitment to accelerate the energy transition, while providing clean energy and economic support and opportunities to the local communities in which we operate.”

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    Rod Walton is senior editor for EnergyTech.com. He has spent 14 years covering the energy industry as a newspaper and trade journalist.

    Walton formerly was energy writer and business editor at the Tulsa World. Later, he spent six years covering the electricity power sector for Pennwell and Clarion Events. He joined Endeavor and EnergyTech in November 2021.

    He can be reached at [email protected]. 

    EnergyTech is focused on the mission critical and large-scale energy users and their sustainability and resiliency goals. These include the commercial and industrial sectors, as well as the military, universities, data centers and microgrids.

    Many large-scale energy users such as Fortune 500 companies, and mission-critical users such as military bases, universities, healthcare facilities, public safety and data centers, shifting their energy priorities to reach net-zero carbon goals within the coming decades. These include plans for renewable energy power purchase agreements, but also on-site resiliency projects such as microgrids, combined heat and power, rooftop solar, energy storage, digitalization and building efficiency upgrades.