McDonald’s Corporation and eBay have announced agreements with Lightsource bp to purchase power from what will be Louisiana’s largest solar project, located 30 miles northwest of Baton Rouge in Pointe Coupee Parish.
The 345-megawatt Ventress Solar project will help McDonald’s and eBay meet their sustainability goals and advance their commitment to climate action, while growing Lightsource bp’s expanding footprint of solar assets across the Southeast. Once complete, the project will generate more than 600,000 megawatt-hours (MWh) of clean energy annually, equivalent to the average annual consumption of 59,000 U.S. homes.
Construction is expected to begin as early as the end of this year on the