Dominion Energy and Facebook are adding a new solar facility in Greensville County, Va., to the list of those that will be dedicated to Facebook.
Sadler Solar, a 100-megawatt facility located in Greensville County, Va., was approved by the Virginia State Corporation Commission on Jan. 22 and is expected to become operational by the end of 2020.
Dominion Energy will build, own and operate the solar facility. Facebook will purchase the environmental attributes generated by the solar facility.
Sadler joins eight other Dominion Energy solar projects in Virginia and North Carolina that support Facebook’s operations with renewable energy.
“Partnerships with companies like Facebook help drive the addition of renewable energy to the grid,” said Emil Avram, vice president, business development, at Dominion Energy.
Urvi Parekh, head of renewable energy at Facebook, added, “Since 2017, this partnership has resulted in over 690 megawatts of new solar e