Starbucks has signed a partnership with U.S. solar developer Cypress Creek to power 360 Starbucks stores across Texas, including stores in Houston, Dallas, Fort Worth, Plano and Arlington.
Hundreds of Starbucks stores across Texas are now powered by two, 10-megawatt Cypress Creek–owned solar farms, located in Wharton and Blossom, Texas.
Starbucks is separately investing in six Cypress Creek–owned solar farms in Texas, representing 50 megawatts of solar energy. In total, the portfolio of eight announced projects will reduce carbon emissions by an estimated 101,000 tons per year, the equivalent of planting nearly 2.5 million trees.
This is not the first major investment Starbucks has made in solar energy. In May 2017, Starbucks announced that 149,000 solar panels would be powering 600 stores in North Carolina, Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia and
