Meta signed 3 separate solar deals in Texas, adding 1,376 megawatts to feed its growing data centers

What the Meta solar deals in Texas cover

Meta signed 3 separate power purchase agreements in Texas across 2025 and early 2026, a contract type in which a buyer agrees to pay for the entire output of a specific new power plant. Megawatts measure how much electricity a power plant can generate at any one moment, and 1,000 megawatts equal 1 gigawatt. ENGIE will build the 600 megawatt Swenson Ranch Solar project in Stonewall County, Texas, a 900 million dollar investment expected to reach service in 2027, selling 100% of its output to Meta. Enbridge will build the 600 megawatt Clear Fork project near San Antonio, Texas, an estimated 0.9 billion dollar project under a long term contract for 100% of its output, expected to enter service in summer 2027. Zelestra will build the 176 megawatt Skull Creek Solar Plant in Texas, its seventh power purchase agreement with Meta, though the only readable source on that deal states no county or in service date for it. Together the 3 projects add 1,376 megawatts of new solar capacity, a total this site calculated by adding the 3 sourced figures, not a sum any single company states.

Why Meta is locking in whole projects instead of smaller purchases

The ENGIE deal alone brings its relationship with Meta to more than 1.3 gigawatts across 4 Texas projects, source 1. Urvi Parekh, head of global energy at Meta, said the new project extends that partnership.

We are thrilled to bring an additional 600MW of solar energy to the grid, and expand our partnership with ENGIE to 1.3 GW.

Urvi Parekh, head of global energy at Meta. Source 1.

Matthew Akman, executive vice president, corporate strategy, and president, power at Enbridge, said the separate Clear Fork project reflects the same rising demand.

Clear Fork demonstrates the growing demand for renewable power across North America from blue-chip companies who are involved in technology and data center operations.

Matthew Akman, executive vice president, corporate strategy, and president, power at Enbridge. Source 2.

The Zelestra deal stands apart from the ENGIE running total, bringing its own relationship with Meta to 7 power purchase agreements totaling 1.2 gigawatts of solar capacity across the United States, source 3. That nationwide count and the Texas only ENGIE count measure different things, and this site does not add them together.

Why the deals are concentrated in Texas

Large flexible load customers, a category that includes data centers, held 5,479 megawatts of approved capacity on ERCOT, the grid operator that manages the power grid serving most of Texas, according to the United States Energy Information Administration, source 5. The agency expected that figure to reach 9,500 megawatts by the end of 2025, a 73% increase, with a further 26,500 megawatts of applications still pending. This federal data is dated October 2024, before any of the 3 deals in this article were signed, and shows the scale of demand growth that made rapid new solar contracting in Texas necessary, not a current 2025 or 2026 number.

A 2027 deadline is shaping the timing

All 3 projects target a 2027 in service date. The One Big Beautiful Bill Act requires wind and solar projects still in development to reach service by 2027 to keep the federal investment tax credit at its prior, more valuable rate, a tax break that lowers the cost of building a new solar project, source 4. That detail comes from trade press coverage of the 3 deals, not from either company own announcement, and helps explain why 3 separate developers are racing to finish new Texas solar projects on the same schedule.