Google has entered into a 15-year power purchase agreement (PPA) with TotalEnergies for supply of 1.5 terawatt hours (TWh) of renewable electricity to its data centers in Ohio, US. Renewable power supply will be from TotalEnergies’ Montpelier solar farm that is almost complete. Montpelier will connect to the largest regional grid operator in the US, PJM for supply to Google’s Ohio data centers.
Montpelier Solar Farm Project Overview
Location: Williams County, Ohio
Developer: TotalEnergies
Capacity: 49 MW
Grid Connection: PJM
Power Offtaker: Google (Alphabet Inc.)
TotalEnergies-Google PPA Contract Scope: 15-year electricity supply
PPA Energy Volume: 1.5 TWh for 15 years. Equivalent to 100 MW annual production.
Status: Under development
TotalEnergies Ohio Data Centers Power Supply Deal with Google: Overview
With this agreement in place, TotalEnergies continues to strengthens its position as a renewable energy provider to large tech-load customers in the U.S. The Montpelier facility is just as good an example of this.
For Google, the Ohio data centers supply deal with TotalEnergies secures its regional energy supply and will support its carbon-free commitment.
TotalEnergies Ohio Data Centers Power Supply Deal with Google, and the Global Tech-Energy Landscape
Data centers’ electricity consumption has been on the rise over the past few years. Tech companies on the other hand are increasingly virtue-signalling and acting on carbon-free energy commitments amid the climate change wake-up-call. For Google, securing renewables in the region of its operations, like Ohio, aligns with its target of matching electricity consumption with carbon-free, 24/7 sources.
Energy major, TotalEnergies is also putting to good use the company‘s U.S. renewables build-out of about 10 GW to secure long term corporate offtake contracts. This is in part to diversify from historical oil & gas toward a cleaner energy business model. TotalEnergies deal to supply Google’s data centers in Ohio is in the middle of handshake over a table between growing digital infrastructure demand and decarbonization in the energy sector.
