TotalEnergies has began industrial operations of Myrtle Photo voltaic, a 380 MW photo voltaic farm situated south of Houston, co-located with 225 MWh of battery storage.
With 705,000 ground-mounted photovoltaic panels put in over an space equal to 1,800 American soccer fields, Myrtle produces sufficient inexperienced electrical energy to cowl the equal consumption of 70,000 properties.
About 70% of Myrtle’s capability will provide inexperienced electrical energy to the corporate’s industrial vegetation within the U.S. Gulf Coast area. It’s a part of the corporate’s “Go Inexperienced” Venture, which can allow the corporate to cowl, by 2025, the ability wants and curtail the Scope 1+2 emissions of its industrial websites in Port Arthur and La Porte in Texas and Carville in Louisiana.
The remaining 30% of Myrtle’s capability will provide inexperienced electrical energy to Kilroy Realty, a publicly traded actual property firm, below a 15-year company energy buy settlement listed on service provider costs.
Along with the photovoltaic installations, the solar energy plant additionally options battery power storage gear to satisfy the necessity for grid stabilization. The storage is made from 114 power storage methods containers designed and assembled by TotalEnergies affiliate Saft.
“This startup is one other milestone in reaching our purpose to construct an built-in and worthwhile place in Texas, the place ERCOT is the principle electrical grid operator,” says Vincent Stoquart, senior vp, renewables, at TotalEnergies.
Myrtle was initially developed by SunChase Energy and Eolian.
