{"id":156729,"date":"2026-02-09T09:17:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T09:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/156729\/"},"modified":"2026-02-09T09:17:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T09:17:09","slug":"totalenergies-to-provide-solar-power-to-googles-texas-data-centres","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/156729\/","title":{"rendered":"TotalEnergies to provide solar power to Google&#8217;s Texas data centres"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">Feb 9 (Reuters) &#8211; French oil major TotalEnergies on Monday signed two long-term deals to supply solar \u200bpower to Google\u2019s data centres in Texas, as \u200cit looks to tap rising electricity demand driven by <a href=\"https:\/\/tech.yahoo.com\/ai\/\" data-ylk=\"slk:artificial intelligence;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">artificial intelligence<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">Total \u200cwill deliver 1 gigawatt of capacity &#8211; equivalent to 28 terawatt-hours of renewable power over 15 years &#8211; from two Texas sites owned by the group that are due to \u2060begin construction in the \u200csecond quarter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">The company has bucked the trend among oil majors by continuing to invest \u200din renewable energy alongside gas-fired power plants, expanding its power business in deregulated markets where price volatility can create attractive trading \u200bopportunities, including the ERCOT market in Texas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">Marc-Antoine Pignon, \u200cTotal&#8217;s vice president for U.S. renewables, said the deals mark the largest volume of renewable power purchase agreements TotalEnergies has ever signed in the United States.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">Total already indirectly supplies Google with power via its 50% stake in \u2060California-based renewables company Clearway, which \u200brecently signed deals worth 1.2 GW \u200bto supply data centres in three U.S. power markets.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">&#8220;Our agreement with TotalEnergies adds necessary new \u200dgeneration to the \u2060local system, boosting the amount of affordable and reliable power supply available to serve the entire region,&#8221; \u2060Will Conkling, Google&#8217;s director of clean energy and power, said \u200cin a statement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">(Reporting by Mateusz Rabiega and America \u200cHernandez, Editing by Louise Heavens)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Feb 9 (Reuters) &#8211; French oil major TotalEnergies on Monday signed two long-term deals to supply solar \u200bpower&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":156730,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[64564,7389,16614,64566,64563,27,29,28,64565],"class_list":{"0":"post-156729","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-texas","8":"tag-data-centres","9":"tag-google","10":"tag-power-plants","11":"tag-power-supply","12":"tag-renewable-power","13":"tag-texas","14":"tag-texas-headlines","15":"tag-texas-news","16":"tag-totalenergies"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156729\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/156730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}