Apex Clean Energy is to supply clean electricity to a consortium of universities, hospitals and other non-profit organisations in the Boston area in a deal the renewables developers claims is the first of its kind.
The company has signed two virtual power purchase agreements with the Consortium for Climate Solutions (CCS) covering the purchase of an estimated 1.3TWh of renewable electricity annually by 2026.
The power will come from Apex’s 200MW Big Elm solar project in Bell county, Texas, which came online earlier this year, and the 208MW Bowman wind project in Bowman county, North Dakota, which is expected to come online in 2026.
CCS’s members include Harvard University, the Mass General Brigham (MGB) healthcare nonprofit, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) as well as PowerOptions, a 500-member energy group of nonprofits and public entities, among them, the City of Cambridge, Beth Israel Lahey Health, Boston Children’s Hospital, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Tufts University, the Massachusetts Convention Center Authority, and the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston.
Apex claims the renewable electricity aggregation deal is the first of its kind.
