Enel signs a 65 MW portion of 497 MW Roadrunner solar PV project in Texas

Enel Green Power has signed with Mondelēz International a 12-year power purchase agreement under which the food company will buy the energy delivered to the grid by a 65 MW portion of the Roadrunner photovoltaic plant.

The energy supplied by EGPNA’s Roadrunner PV project is enough to produce over 50% of all the Oreos consumed in the US annually, equivalent to around 10 billion cookies, and will reduce Mondelēz International’s annual CO₂ emissions by 80,000 metric tons. The agreement is Mondelēz International’s largest renewable energy partnership at the global level and their first renewable energy PPA signed in the US.

Roadrunner, which is currently being built in Upton County, Texas, will have a total capacity of 497 MW and, once completed, will be able to generate approximately 1.2 TWh annually, while avoiding the emission of over 800,000 tons of CO₂ per year. The first phase of Roadrunner has a capacity of 252 MW and is expected to be completed by the end of 2019; the second 245 MW phase is expected to be completed the following year. Roadrunner is set to be the largest solar facility in Enel’s US portfolio.