ENGIE North America has signed additional power purchase agreements with Meta, expanding their total collaboration to more than 1300MW of renewable energy capacity across four projects in Texas.
The new agreements include the 600MW Swenson Ranch Solar project in Stonewall County, southeast of Lubbock – ENGIE’s largest solar development to date. Meta will purchase 100% of the project’s output to power its US data centre operations.
Swenson Ranch represents a $900m investment and will employ over 350 workers during construction. It is expected to begin operations in 2027 and generate more than $158m in tax revenues for the county and local hospital district over its lifetime.
“We are excited to continue the expansion of our relationship with Meta,” said Dave Carroll, chief executive 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.”
Meta’s head of global energy, Urvi Parekh, 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 enables us to continue matching 100% of our electricity use with clean and renewable energy to support our data centre operations.”
ENGIE said the project will form part of its 11GW portfolio of operating and in-construction solar, wind and battery assets across North America.