Enel Green Power has started operations at the 245MW second phase of its Roadrunner solar farm in Upton County, Texas.
Total capacity at the project is 497MW, making it the largest operational solar farm in Texas and the company’s largest in the US, it said.
Enel Green Power North America head Georgios Papadimitriou said: “Our engineering and construction team executed on a project of monumental scale in record time, notwithstanding today’s ongoing challenges.
“Enel Green Power has firmly established itself as a leader in large-scale solar generation in North America, and with a portfolio that now totals over 6GW of renewable capacity, our strategy of steady growth in the US and Canada continues apace.”
Roadrunner will sell 65MW of electricity to Mondelez International and 70MW to The Clorox Company under power purchase agreements.
Other Enel Green Power construction projects across the US and Canada include the 181MW Lily solar plus storage project in Texas and three wind farm – the 236.5MW White Cloud in Missouri, 299MW Aurora in North Dakota and 199MW expansion of the Cimarron Bend in Kansas.