December 4, 2024

Oregon Solar Project

Avangrid, a sustainable energy company and member of the Iberdrola Group, and Portland General Electric, in collaboration with QTS and Meta, have signed a Power Purchase Agreement for Tower Solar, a new 120 MWac solar energy project now under construction in Morrow County, Oregon. The facility will deliver clean, renewable energy to Portland General Electric's grid through Green Future Impact (GFI), a voluntary program designed to help large commercial, industrial, and municipal customers meet their sustainability and carbon reduction goals through the development of new clean energy facilities in the region. Subscribers to PGE's GFI program enroll in a bundled renewable energy product and receive the Renewable Energy Certificates associated with the energy generated from the new facility. PGE's subscription pricing is designed to avoid cost shifting to non-participating customers. Under PGE's GFI program, QTS, a data center solutions provider, is developing a data center campus to support Meta's operations in the region that will be supported by renewable energy from Tower Solar, helping to meet Meta's sustainability and 100% renewable energy goals. Tower Solar will be located just west of Boardman on about 900 acres of industrially zoned land owned by the Port of Morrow near the Boardman Airport. The project will utilize more than 200,000 solar panels. Avangrid, headquartered in Orange, Connecticut, is the leading supplier of renewable energy to PGE's Green Future Impact program, including from Pachwáywit Fields, Oregon's largest operating solar facility, and the Daybreak, and Bakeoven solar farms, which are currently under construction. Tower Solar will become Avangrid's sixth solar facility in Oregon once construction is complete in 2026, and its 17th Oregon power generation project overall.