Toyota has signed its second clean power contract with Clearway Energy Group.
Clearway signed a virtual power purchase agreement (VPPA) with Toyota to help support Clearway’s 100 MW (megawatt) Wildflower Solar Project in DeSoto County, Mississippi.
“Toyota continues to aggressively shift to renewable energy sources for our operations, while also working to improve the lives of the people in communities where we work and live, all a part of our efforts toward carbon neutrality,” Kevin Butt, regional environmental sustainability director at Toyota Motor North America, told Toyota Newsroom.
Toyota will buy a majority of the electricity that the Wildflower Project generates, 80 megawatts, to replace the high-emissions electricity used in its own operations, with zero-emissions renewable electricity on the grid.
The Wildflower Project is a solar project slated to begin in 2023 and is expected to generate $10 million to DeSoto County through tax revenue, as well as create enough clean energy to power 16,500 homes each year.
Wildflower Solar marks the second VPPA between Clearway and Toyota. The project is expected to create hundreds of job opportunities and generate millions of dollars in spending in the local community. Notably, it is among the other solar and wind projects and VPPAs that Toyota has pursued to help eliminate all carbon emissions from its operations by 2035.
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