Meta and SRP customers will benefit from the solar and stored energy from Eleven Mile Solar Center in Pinal CountyPHOENIX, Dec. 11, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Meta announced its Mesa data center will soon be supported by new solar energy from Salt River Project (SRP) through a contract with leading U.S. clean energy provider Ørsted. Under the contract, Meta will receive the majority portion of the solar energy generated by Ørsted's Eleven Mile Solar Center, a 300-MW solar farm and 300-MW, four-hour battery energy storage system currently under construction in Pinal County, Arizona.Once online in 2024, this will be the largest solar-plus-battery project on SRP's power grid, and one of the largest battery energy storage systems built in a single phase in the U.S. The solar and stored e