Renewable energy company Ørsted and water supplier Salt River Project (SRP) partnered with Meta, to support the Facebook parent’s Mesa data center, with a new solar energy and battery project, on Monday.
Ørsted said Meta will receive majority portion of the solar energy generated by its Eleven Mile Solar Center, a 300-MW solar farm and 300-MW, four-hour battery energy storage system.
In addition to this project, the green energy company said Meta will also receive an issuance of 50 MW from the 100-MW West Line Solar Facility, which is expected to be online in 2024.
Also, the company said, this will be the largest solar-plus-battery project on SRP’s power grid in 2024, and one of the largest battery energy storage systems built in a single phase the United States.
Urvi Parekh, head of renewable energy at Meta said, “We are proud to partner with SRP to bring new solar energy to the grid and access to renewable energy, reliable grid were an important part of our decision to build in Mesa.”
“As SRP focuses on responsibly decarbonizing our generation mix, we will need to more than double our power resource capacity by 2035 so strategic partnerships with customers like Meta and renewable energy developers like Ørsted help us get there,” said Bobby Olsen, strategy and sustainability executive at SRP.
James Giamarino, chief commercial officer of Ørsted also said, “The Eleven Mile Solar Center is Ørsted’s first project in Arizona and we are pleased to partner with SRP to deliver clean, affordable power to their customers, including companies like Meta that are prioritising sustainability.”
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