Meta, Apex Clean Energy sign 144-MW Texas solar PPA — SkimNews
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- Apex Clean Energy and Meta announced a 144-MW PPA for the Starling Solar project in Gonzales County, Texas, expanding their joint portfolio to 1.2 GW across seven projects in Texas, Virginia, Illinois, Kansas, and Iowa.
- The Starling Solar project is expected to begin commercial operations in 2027 per Apex's release, though the August ERCOT queue report lists the anticipated commercial operation date as January 28, 2028, and notes the project has completed its security screening study and entered the full interconnection study phase.
- Meta will receive exclusive rights to all environmental attributes associated with the project's energy, including all renewable energy credits.
- Apex previously partnered with Meta on the 200-MW Aviator Wind East PPA in Coke County (2019) and a 2023 environmental attribute purchase agreement for the full 195-MW Angelo Solar project in Tom Green County, Texas.
- Meta has invested over $10 billion in a 1-GW data center in El Paso and signed a separate PPA with ENGIE to purchase 100% of output from a 600-MW solar project in Stonewall County, Texas.
Why it matters: The 144-MW Starling deal locks in additional renewable supply for Meta's growing Texas data center footprint, where the company has already committed over $10 billion to a 1-GW El Paso facility. The exclusive RECs arrangement gives Meta full claim to Starling's emissions-reduction credits, reinforcing its 100% renewable matching strategy while deepening a five-state, seven-project pipeline with Apex.
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