US-based renewable energy developer Apex Clean Energy has signed an environmental asset purchase agreement with tech giant Meta for a 195MW solar project in Texas.
PV has outpaced wind as the preferred choice for corporate buyers in the US, with utility-scale solar accounting for 58% of the total contracted clean power to date, according to trade body the American Clean Power Association (ACP).
The American arm of bp, through its 50:50 joint venture partner Lightsource bp, has begun construction on a 134MW solar project in Fulton County, Ohio.
Tech giant Meta has partnered with independent power producer Silicon Ranch to build seven solar projects in Georgia and Tennessee with a capacity of 720MW.
D.E. Shaw Renewable Investments (DESRI), the US renewable energy developer, has signed a 200MW power purchase agreement (PPA) with tech and social media titan Meta for power produced at the Long Lake solar project in Arkansas.
In the span of two and a half years, commercial solar has doubled its installed capacity from 9.8GW at the end of 2019 to 19GW of solar PV until June 2022.
Renewable energy asset manager Luxcara has signed a 300MWp of installed capacity power purchase agreement (PPA) with tech company Meta, formerly Facebook, in Denmark which it claims is the largest ever solar PPA in the country.
