Overview
- The Palmera power purchase agreement, announced Tuesday, June 9, 2026, covers a 180 MWdc (140 MWac) solar plant in Freestone County, Texas, contracted by Meta with developer Zelestra.
- With Palmera added, Meta and Zelestra now hold PPAs for roughly 1.4 GWdc across eight U.S. projects that Zelestra says are targeted to be operational by 2028.
- The partnership has one project already online—an 81 MWdc plant in Jasper County, Indiana—and has started construction on Skull Creek (176 MWdc, Anderson County, Texas) and Reclamation (200 MWdc, Gibson County, Indiana).
- Skull Creek named McCarthy as lead EPC and is expected to support about 200 peak construction jobs and roughly $8.2 million in local economic activity, while Reclamation named Qcells as module supplier and EPC and will install about 325,000 U.S.-made bifacial modules on reclaimed coal-mining land.
- Zelestra, backed by EQT with a reported U.S. pipeline near 15 GW, is using these sequential PPAs to deliver new generation for hyperscalers, a model that secures dedicated supply while promising local job creation and land-reclamation benefits.