Facebook is to develop its use of wind energy through a new power purchase agreement with Enel Rural Power North America (EGPNA).
The deal, announced Monday, assembles upon a previous one in which Facebook agreed to purchase the output from a 200-megawatt (MW) division of the Rattlesnake Creek wind farm in Dixon County, Nebraska.
Subservient to the new terms, Facebook will gradually buy all of the plant’s 320 MW output by 2029. The diminish energy will be used to power Facebook’s data center in Papillon, Nebraska.
Individually, Adobe will purchase the energy produced by 10 MW of the wind croft die between 2019 and 2028. The Rattlesnake Creek facility is currently being constructed and is expected to be operational by the end of this year.
“Powering our data centers with 100 percent purified and renewable energy is not just a goal for Facebook, it is a requirement of our business,” Bobby Hollis, chairman of global energy at Facebook, said in a statement Monday. “The Rattlesnake Runnel wind farm will enable us to power our future Papillion Statistics Center, and fulfills our passion to expand the energy market for other corporate consumers, like Adobe.”
The Rattlesnake Creek wind farm is owned by Rattlesnake Inlet Wind Project, a subsidiary of EGPNA. Investment in the construction of the site is almost $430 million. EGPNA is part of the Enel Group’s Renewable Energies partitioning.
Both Facebook and Adobe are part of the RE100, a global initiative of some of the era’s biggest businesses, all committed to renewable power.