Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp owner Meta and Engie North America announced that they have signed new purchase power agreements (PPAs), including a PPA which will see Engie supplying 100% of the energy produced from its largest-ever solar project to power Meta’s data center operations in Texas.
The new agreement will increase the overall scale of the commercial relationship between the two companies to more than 1.3 GW across four Texas-based projects.
The latest PPAs cover Engie’s new 600 MW Swenson Ranch Solar project in Stonewall county, Texas. It is expected to be Engie’s single largest asset in its 11 GW portfolio of solar, wind and battery storage assets in North America, with planned investment reaching $900 million.
The 600 MW project will be operational in 2027, with Meta purchasing 100% of the site’s output to support its data center operations in the U.S.
Dave Carroll, CEO and Chief Renewables Officer at Engie North America, said:
“Our objective is to bring reliable, cost competitive power to the grid as rapidly as possible, and projects like Swenson demonstrate the importance of solar to meet the timely needs of our customers.”
Meta has set a target to reach net-zero emissions across its value chain by 2030. The company achieved its goal to meet 100% of its operational energy needs with renewable sources in 2020, and recently said that it anticipates adding 9.8 GW of renewable energy to local grids in the U.S. by the end of 2025.
The new agreement follows a renewable energy supply deal between the two companies earlier this year, in which Engie agreed to provide 200 MW of renewable energy and associated environmental attributes to Meta from its Anson 2 solar project, as well as a 260 MW deal announced last year.
In September, Engie North America also announced an agreement with sustainable hyperscale data center developer Prometheus Hyperscale to co-locate data centers at renewable and battery storage energy facilities – also in Texas.
Urvi Parekh, Head of Global Energy at Meta, said:
“We are thrilled to bring an additional 600 MW of solar energy to the grid, and expand our partnership with Engie to 1.3 GW. Our collaboration with Engie enables us to continue matching 100% of our electricity use with clean and renewable energy to support our data center operations.”
