Lightsource bp switches on 188-MW Indiana solar farm to supply Google

UK-based solar developer Lightsource bp said today it has brought online its 188-MW Honeysuckle solar project in St Joseph County, Indiana.

UK-based solar developer Lightsource bp said today it has brought online its 188-MW Honeysuckle solar project in St Joseph County, Indiana.

Lightsource bp has signed a power purchase agreement (PPA) with Google for the solar park’s electricity, following the tech group’s announcement of a USD-2-billion (EUR 1.8bn) data centre campus in Fort Wayne.

“We have an ambitious goal to operate every Google campus on clean electricity every hour of every day by 2030, which will include our Fort Wayne data center once it comes online,” said Amanda Peterson Corio, Google’s global head of data centre energy.

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Source: Renewables Now

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