Google has signed a Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) to procure the output of a solar farm in Indiana.
Renewable developer EDPR this week announced it has secured a 15-year deal with Google for the clean energy produced by a 100 Mwac (138 MWdc) solar project in Dubois County, Indiana.
The project is situated within an Energy Community (a former coal mining area) with expected operations in 2025.
Further details haven't been shared, but EDPR's website lists a 100MW project in Dubois County known as the Duff Solar Park, to be located west of the town of Huntingburg.
The deal was facilitated through LEAP (LevelTen Energy's Accelerated Process), which was co-developed by Google and LevelTen Energy to make clean energy buying and selling more efficient.
Google recently announced plans for a new data center campus in Fort Wayne, Indiana. While details weren’t shared, filings with local government under the name ‘Project Zodiac’ – previously confirmed to be Google – suggest a 12-building campus spanning more than 700 acres.
Google is a major purchaser of renewable energy and is moving towards 24/7 energy matching for its operations. So far in 2024, Google has signed Power Purchase Agreements (PPAs) in the Netherlands, Belgium, Italy, Poland, Japan, Nevada, and Arizona. The company has also announced investments into carbon capture and put out an RFP for innovative energy generation technologies. It recently acquired a stake in a Taiwanese solar firm.
EDPR currently has 3.1 GW of solar capacity in operation and under construction in North America. The company has previously signed PPAs with Google in the US and Netherlands as well as Meta in Texas.
In Europe, EDPR recently announced it had signed three long-term PPAs with an unnamed “large US-based technological company” to sell the green energy produced by three solar projects in Europe. The projects comprise the 60MWac Chiaramonte project in Italy; the 58MWac Ketzin project in Germany; and the 15MWac Venoy site in France.
