ARKANSAS, USA — Meta, the company that made its name as Facebook Inc., has made a deal with the founding family of LEGO to purchase hundreds of megawatts of power from a solar energy farm under development in Phillips County.
The project is known as Long Lake Solar; the companies did not reveal when the plant is expected to go online.
Solar developer and power plant owner Adapture Renewables Inc. of Oakland, California, announced Monday that Meta has signed three agreements to buy 330 megawatts of power from the Arkansas project and from two solar fields in Illinois. The deals are environmental attributes purchase agreements, or EAPAs, Adapture said in a news release.
To read more about this deal, our content partner Arkansas Business has the full story here.
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