Microsoft is collaborating with Invenergy to work on a solar project in Beaufort County, N.C.
The new 74-megawatt Wilkinson Solar Energy Center project is slated to commence operations in 2019.
Microsoft signed a 15-year power-purchase agreement for the energy produced by the solar power facility. The facility is anticipated to generate local investment of $20 million and estimated to create approximately 500 jobs in the course of construction.
Microsoft is one of many companies making significant investments in renewable energy in order to keep a check on its operating expenses along with making efforts to keep the climate clean. The power-purchase agreement with Invenergy is Microsoft’s fourth off-take deal in the PJM Interconnection area and lifts the volume of its directly purchased renewable energy to about 1.3 gigawatts.
PJM Interconnection coordinates the movement of electricity through all or parts of Delaware, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Maryland, Michigan, New Jersey, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia and the District of Columbia.
