Happy Wednesday! We hope everyone got out to vote yesterday!
Did anyone
happen to read The Houston Chronicle’s Business Section on November 4,
2023, their article titled, “Oil giant begins operating solar site”? In the article, it goes on to speak about TotalEnergies
began using its own commercial grade solar farm with storage capabilities located
south of Houston. Their project called Myrtle Solar will be able to collect about 380-megawatts of solar energy and be
able to hold 225 megawatts-hours of battery storage. The facility has 705,000 ground-mounted solar
panels which cover an area about the size of 1,800 football fields or over
2380 acres which would be able to power seventy thousand homes. This commercial solar farm is the power to TotalEnergies’
industrial plants in Texas and Louisiana which include Port Arthur oil refinery,
LaPorte polypropylene plant, and Carville styrene and polystyrene plant. Even though the majority of the power
generated (70%) will be to power their Gulf Coast plants the remaining power
generation will be used by Kilroy Realty and they have a 15-year power purchase
agreement in place. The solar farm used federal
tax incentives from the Inflation Reduction Act to help it become the operating
farm it is today. Myrtle Solar Farm is one
of the steps TotalEnergies is taking to change itself into an energy
company as well as help with reducing emissions. If you would like to read more of The
Houston Chronicle’s article, please click the link: TotalEnergies starts solar farm, batteries in Houston area (houstonchronicle.com).
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with less of a carbon footprint or just find out what is underneath your feet
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We hope you have a wonderful evening and a great rest of
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