Google has signed a spate of Power Purchase Agreements (PPA) totalling 1.17GW with Clearway Energy Group across Missouri, Texas, and West Virginia.
Under the terms of the PPAs, Clearway will supply power to support Google’s data center operations in the Southern Power Pool, ERCOT, and PJM Interconnection markets for up to 20 years.
According to Clearway, the undisclosed projects represent more than $2.4 billion in investments within the clean energy infrastructure space.
"Strengthening the grid by deploying more reliable and clean energy is crucial for supporting the digital infrastructure that businesses and individuals depend on,” said Amanda Peterson Corio, global head of Data Center Energy, Google. “Our collaboration with Clearway will help power our data centers and the broader economic growth of communities within SPP, ERCOT, and PJM footprints."
Construction on the projects will commence this year, with the first sites expected to come online in 2027 and 2028.
“Clearway is proud to collaborate with Google on a diverse portfolio of projects that will deliver near-term energy and capacity to help power Google’s data centers across regions experiencing historic load growth,” said Valerie Wooley, SVP of Origination at Clearway.
The PPAs build on a previous PPA between the companies in West Virginia, where Google committed to offtake 71.5MW of power.
Clearway is a San Francisco-headquartered renewable energy developer that was founded in 2018. According to its website, it has a portfolio of 11.8GW of gross capacity across 26 US states.
Of this, 9.1GW is wind, solar, and battery energy storage, with the remaining 2.8GW flexible dispatchable power. The company has signed PPAs with other major data center companies. Most recently, last April, the firm inked a PPA with Microsoft to supply the hyperscaler with power from its 335MW Mount Storm wind farm located in Grant County, West Virginia.
The PPA with Clearway is Google’s first of 2026. In 2025, the search giant signed a number of renewable contracts, including a 15-year PPA with TotalEnergies, a 35MW PPA with Exus Renewables, and a 54MW PPA with Eneco, across Europe and the US.
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