EDP Renewables North America (EDPR NA) has completed three utility-scale solar projects in Illinois and Texas that will provide power for tech company Microsoft, the renewable energy company said Feb. 10.

The projects are the 140-megawattt (MW) Wolf Run Solar near Jacksonville, Illinois; the 110-MW Hickory Solar near Jerseyville, Illinois; and the 150-MW Cattlemen II Solar near Austin, Texas. All three projects went online last year.

Microsoft agreed to purchase 389 MW of electricity and renewable energy credits from the projects through long-term virtual power purchase agreements (PPA), EDPR NA said. Hickory uses an Environmental Justice PPA developed by Microsoft and Volt Energy Utility, which makes clean energy investments in rural and urban communities.

“Through these three additional projects, we’re keeping our promise—and indeed the industry’s promise—to contribute to the nation’s growing energy demand and in that process invest in long-lasting economic growth of our communities,” EDP Renewables North America CEO Sandhya Ganapathy said.

With the latest agreement, EDPR NA has five operational projects providing power to Microsoft, which aims to become carbon negative by 2030.

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