Facebook and General Motors Sign Up for Kentucky Solar
The two corporations signed up for solar energy capacity using Tennessee Valley Authority’s Green Invest program.
Through the Tennessee Valley Authority’s nationally recognized Green Invest program, renewable energy continues to expand through the largest solar-plus-storage project in TVA’s Kentucky service area—the Logan County Solar Project.
The Logan County-based solar project will provide Facebook’s regional data center operations with 145 megawatts of solar power and General Motors’ Bowling Green Assembly, exclusive home of the Chevrolet Corvette, with 28 megawatts of solar power.
Facebook’s investment helped enable the addition of 120 megawatt-hours of new battery storage technology that will increase the resilience of the power grid. TVA and Warren Rural Electric Cooperative Corporation are partnering with Nashville-based Silicon Ranch to develop the project.
Since 2018, Green Invest has attracted nearly $2.7 billion in solar investment and procured over 2,100 megawatts of solar on behalf of its customers—maintaining TVA’s green energy leadership with the greatest amount of renewable generation in the Southeast.
TVA signed a long-term power purchase agreement with Silicon Ranch to develop, own, operate and maintain the solar-plus-storage facility, which will foster significant capital investment in Logan County and spawn additional economic impacts for the surrounding area.
Silicon Ranch plans to hire more than 450 workers and will emphasize hiring locally for the project’s construction.
The Logan County facility will also feature Silicon Ranch’s holistic approach to land management, a model the company has trademarked as Regenerative Energy®. Under this unique platform, Silicon Ranch will restore the land to a functioning grassland ecosystem while keeping the property in agricultural production through managed sheep grazing. Key to this approach is managing the land based on close observations of soil, grass, and the water cycle, resulting in quantifiable ecological, economic, and social outcomes that are backed by a third-party verified standard.
173 MW
~493,000
~1,100 acres
~25k homes
Q4 2020
TVA Awarded Project
Q1 2021 – Q1 2023
Environmental Reviews
and Permitting
Q1 2023 – Q4 2024
Construction of Facility
Q4 2024
Operations
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Silicon Ranch will invest more than $200 million to build the Logan County Solar Project, creating more than 450 construction jobs and supporting additional jobs through indirect and induced impacts during the construction phase alone. Once operational, the project will yield significant new tax revenues for the local government and school system, while requiring little to no county services in return. As part of TVA’s Green Invest program, the project further supports economic development for the region by helping to meet the goals of large employers in the Tennessee Valley.
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The two corporations signed up for solar energy capacity using Tennessee Valley Authority’s Green Invest program.
The new Logan County solar farm will provide power to Facebook’s regional data center and General Motors’ Bowling Green Assembly.