flurry of PPAs<\/a> that Facebook signed last fall, a portfolio that also included projects in Ohio, Illinois, Tennessee and Ireland which, when combined with the Cove Mountain project, came out to roughly 806 MW of solar and wind power.<\/p>\n\n\n\nCove Mountain and Cove Mountain II weren\u2019t the only projects Facebook targeted in Utah, signing additional PPAs for Graphite Solar, an 80-MW installation coming to being developed by rPlus Energies in Carbon County; Rocket Solar, another 80-MW installation, this time in Box Elder County, developed by D.E. Shaw Renewable Investments and Enyo Renewable Energy; and D.E. Shaw Renewable and Enyo endeavor, the 75-MW Horseshoe Solar installation coming to Tooele County.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Cove Mountain and Cove Mountain 2 represent two of D. E. Shaw Renewable Investments\u2019 nine projects that are currently operating, under construction, or have signed PPAs in\u00a0Utah.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
From: https:\/\/pv-magazine-usa.com\/2021\/04\/15\/two-projects-feeding-180-mw-of-solar-to-facebook-enter-service\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
D. E. Shaw Renewable Investments announced commercial operation of the Cove Mountain and Cove Mountain II solar projects, both part of a PPA frenzy that Facebook undertook beginning last fall. D. E. Shaw Renewable Investments has announced commercial operation of the 180 MW Cove Mountain solar projects in Iron County, Utah, northeast of Las Vegas. Cove…
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