RICHMOND, Va., Feb. 13, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Dominion
Energy and Facebook are continuing their joint effort to increase
renewable energy generation by adding a new solar facility in
Greensville County, Va., to the
list of those that will be dedicated to Facebook.
Sadler Solar, a 100 MW facility
located in Greensville County,
Va., was approved by the Virginia State Corporation
Commission on Jan. 22, 2020 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, Dominion Energy's vice president,
Business Development. "We are honored to work with them to help
meet their sustainability goals as well as continue to expand
renewable energy across the Dominion Energy service area."
"We are proud to continue to grow our partnership with Dominion
Energy by adding this new 100-MW project to the grid," said
Urvi Parekh, head of Renewable
Energy at Facebook. "Since 2017, this partnership has resulted in
over 690 MW of new solar energy in Virginia and North
Carolina and has helped strengthen the renewable energy
market in the region."
This partnership helps to enable Facebook's goal of supporting
its global operations with 100% renewable energy in 2020.
Partnerships with voluntary renewable energy buyers like Facebook
are important to making possible Dominion Energy's goal of adding
3,000 MW of new solar and wind energy in operation or under
development in Virginia by
2022.
About Dominion Energy
More than 7 million customers in
18 states energize their homes and businesses with electricity
or natural gas from Dominion Energy (NYSE: D), headquartered
in Richmond, Va. The company is committed to sustainable,
reliable, affordable and safe energy and is one of the
nation's largest producers and transporters of energy with more
than $100 billion of assets providing electric
generation, transmission and distribution, as well as natural gas
storage, transmission, distribution and import/export services. The
company is committed to achieve net zero carbon dioxide and methane
emissions from its power generation and gas infrastructure
operations by 2050. Please visit DominionEnergy.com to
learn more.
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