TOP 10 – BIGGEST SOLAR FARMS IN THE US

CAPACITY: 900MWDC LOCATION: MILAM COUNTY, TEXAS COMPLETED: 2024 DEVELOPER: SB ENERGY

The Orion Solar Belt project brings together three neighbouring solar farms – Orion I, II and III – into a single 900MWdc complex, making it the second-largest operational solar farm in the US. Its significance extends well beyond its impressive generating capacity. Orion attracted widespread attention after Google agreed to purchase a substantial share of the project’ s output to help power its expanding portfolio of Texas data centres.

The agreement spoke to a growing trend across the energy sector, with major technology companies increasingly becoming some of the world’ s largest buyers of renewable electricity as they seek to meet both rising power demand and ambitious climate commitments.

For developer SB Energy, Orion represents a landmark achievement and reinforces Texas’ position as one of the world’ s leading destinations for utility-scale solar investment. Once synonymous almost exclusively with oil and gas, the state is now producing some of the biggest renewable energy projects anywhere on the planet.

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