Meta and Zelestra are expanding their fast-growing US solar partnership with yet another Texas project as the tech giant’s electricity demand continues to climb.
The two companies announced a new power purchase agreement (PPA) for the 180 MW Palmera Solar Plant in Freestone County, Texas. The new Texas project comes as Zelestra ramps up work on two other Meta-backed solar farms already under construction: the 176 MW Skull Creek Solar Plant in Anderson County, Texas, and the 200 MW Reclamation Solar Project in Gibson County, Indiana.
Together, the Skull Creek and Reclamation projects are expected to support around 400 jobs during peak construction. They’ll join the 81 MW Jasper County Solar Project in Indiana, which recently came online as the first completed project in the partnership…