Dominion Energy is to deliver electricity to Facebook from the 100MW Sadler solar farm in the US state of Virginia.
The project, which will be located in Greensville County, has been approved by the Virginia State Corporation Commission and is expected to become operational by the end of 2020.
Dominion Energy will build, own and operate the solar facility, while Facebook will purchase the environmental attributes generated by the project.
Sadler joins eight other Dominion Energy solar farms in Virginia and North Carolina that support Facebook’s operations with renewable energy.
The partnership helps to enable Facebook’s goal of supporting its global operations with 100% renewable energy in 2020.
Dominion Energy vice president of business development Emil Avram said: “Partnerships with companies like Facebook help drive the addition of renewable energy to the grid.
“We are honoured to work with them to help meet their sustainability goals as well as continue to expand renewable energy across the Dominion Energy service area.”
Facebook head of renewable energy Urvi Parekh said: “We are proud to continue to grow our partnership with Dominion Energy by adding this new 100MW project to the grid.
“Since 2017, this partnership has resulted in over 690MW of new solar energy in Virginia and North Carolina and has helped strengthen the renewable energy market in the region.”
Dominion said partnerships with voluntary renewable energy buyers, such as Facebook, are important to making possible the energy company’s goal of adding 3GW of new solar and wind energy in Virginia by 2022.