Wynn Las Vegas resort purchases solar energy from Enel’s 27 MW plant in US

It is to be noted that Enel Group has ventured into a Power Purchase agreement with the Wynn Las Vegas resort whereby the resort  purchases the energy produced by EGPNA’s new 27 MW Wynn Solar Facility at Still water. The new Solar project is anticipated to initiate productions by the first half of 2018.

Antonio Cammisecra, Head of Enel’s Global Renewable Energies Division Enel Green Power (EGP) said “We are extremely pleased about Wynn’s support of renewable energy and look forward to a long-term partnership that will continue to position Nevada as a hub of clean energy excellence.”

The energy produced by the new facility will be used to meet up to 75% of Wynn Las Vegas’s current peak-power requirements, which is the largest percentage of renewable energy used by any resort in Las Vegas. The  Wynn Solar Facility is a stand-alone solar photo-voltaic project situated in the Churchill country, Nevada.

This partnership is EGP’s fifth major corporate customer agreement in the US over the last two years. Most recently in 2017, EGPNA announced a deal with Facebook for 200 MW of the 320 MW Rattlesnake Creek wind project in Nebraska, currently under construction. Earlier on in the same year, EGP signed PPAs for two Oklahoman plants, one with T-Mobile US, Inc. for 160 MW of its 300 MW Red Dirt wind farm and another with brewer Anheuser-Busch for 152.5 MW of its 298 MW Thunder Ranch wind farm. In 2016, EGP secured its first corporate PPA with Google for the purchase of energy from 200 MW of its 400 MW Cimarron Bend wind farm in Kansas.

EGPNA already manages the 13.4 MW Salt Wells geothermal plant and the aforementioned Stillwater triple hybrid facility comprised of a 33.1 geothermal plant, a 26.4 MW-dc photo-voltaic solar plant and a 2 MW solar thermal plant in the state of Nevada.