Meta has announced new power purchase agreements (PPAs) with ENGIE North America, expanding their collaboration to over 1.3 GW across four solar projects in Texas.
The latest agreement covers ENGIE’s 600MW Swenson Ranch Solar project in Stonewall County, southeast of Lubbock.
Once complete, Swenson will be ENGIE’s largest solar asset to date within its 11GW North American portfolio of solar, wind and battery storage facilities. Meta will contract 100% of the project’s output to power its data centre operations in the United States.
“We are excited to continue the expansion of our relationship with Meta,” said Dave Carroll, CEO and Chief Renewables Officer at ENGIE North America.
“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.”
The $900m investment is expected to generate more than $158m in tax revenues for Stonewall County and its hospital district over the project’s lifetime. Construction will employ over 350 skilled workers, with Swenson scheduled to begin operations in 2027.
Urvi Parekh, Head of Global Energy at Meta, said: “We are thrilled to bring an additional 600MW of solar energy to the grid, and expand our partnership with ENGIE to 1.3GW. Our collaboration with ENGIE enables us to continue matching 100% of our electricity use with clean and renewable energy to support our data centre operations.”
ENGIE stated that the partnership with Meta underscores the growing role of large-scale renewable energy projects in supporting both corporate sustainability goals and regional economic development.
