TotalEnergies has signed a 15-year Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) to supply Google data centres in Ohio with renewable electricity from a local solar farm. The French major recently announced the second deal for data centre power supply so far this month.
The Montpelier solar facility, which is set to be completed, is linked to the PJM grid system – the biggest in America – and will support Google’s data centre operations in Ohio.
The deal is in line with Google’s strategy of enabling new carbon-free energy to the grid systems where they operate, and simultaneously aids TotalEnergies’ plan to deliver tailored energy solutions for data centres, which accounted for almost 3% of the world’s energy demand in 2024.
According to Stéphane Michel, President Gas, Renewables & Power at TotalEnergies, the agreement is further proof of TotalEnergies’ readiness to meet the increasing energy demands of major tech companies.
“This agreement illustrates TotalEnergies’s ability to meet the growing energy demands of major tech companies by leveraging its integrated portfolio of renewable and flexible assets.
It also contributes to achieving our target of 12% profitability in the power sector,” he said.
TotalEnergies will deploy a 10 GW portfolio in the United States, with onshore solar, wind and battery storage projects.
A total of 1 GW of this capacity is located in the PJM market in the northeast of the country, and 4 GW on the ERCOT market in Texas.
Recall that TotalEnergies signed a power purchase agreement with Data4 to supply renewable electricity to the data centre developer’s sites in Spain for a decade.
