EDF Renewables North America is to sell electricity to Florida municipal utility JEA from solar farms totalling 310MW under five power purchase agreements.
The projects will be built across the city of Jacksonville in the US state, EDF said.
EDF Renewables Distributed Solutions vice president of strategic developments Myles Burnsed said: “The Jacksonville 5 solar project represents one of the largest and most ambitious distributed generation solar efforts taken on by any utility company in the US, and we are excited to have been selected as JEA’s partner on this project.”
EDF Renewables Distributed Solutions chief executive Jamie Resor said: “Our focus is to provide fully integrated energy solutions incorporating wind, solar, storage, electric vehicle charging and energy storage management at both the grid-scale and distributed level.
“We look forward to working with JEA on a system-wide portfolio of projects to address their renewable energy objectives, and to assist the team to identify appropriate uses for innovative storage solutions to complement the solar production.”
JEA vice president of energy and water planning Steve McInall said: “These new projects benefit the community by giving us price security for clean energy through a long-term PPA with EDF Renewables.
“They also will support JEA’s SolarMax program, which will allow large commercial and industrial users to obtain their electricity from large solar facilities. This will help to retain and attract green businesses to Jacksonville.”