American aluminum can giant Ball Corporation announced that it has inked a new power purchase agreement to purchase 151 MW of wind energy from a subsidiary of NextEra Energy.
The deal signed is a virtual power purchase agreement (VPPA), which means that Ball will not receive the renewable energy generated. The investments will, instead, offset the operator’s carbon footprint by generating clean energy.
The wind energy center, which will be located in west Texas, is currently under construction, and is expected to start supplying power in 2023. Ball’s portion of the project will generate 600,000 megawatt hours of clean energy per year, enough to power roughly half of Ball’s North American industrial facilities.
